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anytime I hear someone use "zed" for Z(ee) the next thing I hear in my head is "Zed's dead, baby"[0] Pulp Fiction and I just can't help but chuckle [0] https:/

anytime I hear someone use "zed" for Z(ee) the next thing I hear in my head is "Zed's dead, baby"[0] Pulp Fiction and I just can't help but chuckle [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3aAvhUucI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3aAvhUucI

dave333 2y ago
I emigrated from the UK to USA in 1980 and my first code review at Bell Labs I spent about 30 mins explaining my code and then asked if there were any final questions and someone hesitantly asked, "What is this variable 'zed' you keep talking about?"
- dave333 2y ago
  Having posted the above a few days ago, last night I (originally from the UK) was in the car with my wife (US born and bred) following and reciting map directions on my phone like "0.8 miles left on San Antonio" which I say as UK standard "nought point eight miles left on San Antonio." After a while she asks "what is nought?" Here we just say "point 8 miles" or "zero point eight miles." We've only been married 42 years and are still learning each other's language:-)
  - 1659447091 2y ago
    Some time ago a few people from the UK kept calling/referring to someone as a nonce. It took me awhile to say something, but I finally asked because I simply couldn't understand or wrap my head around why they kept referring to this person as a single use random number (mostly for authentication in my case). It was so confusing.
- rwmj 2y ago
  I used to work for a networking start-up and when we were in the US trying - without success - to sell the company we practised over and over saying "roWter" for "router" (English pronunciation like "rooter").
  - wcarss 2y ago
    As a Canadian I read that as "rOATer" for a moment, because the word row rhyming with ow is quite uncommon here -- the row I know is in a boating or a data context.
    - dfawcus 2y ago
      As a Brit, so did I. That said, a "rotor" would be pronounced as "rOATer" and has a completely different meaning. isn't English fun !
    - ninalanyon 2y ago
      You never have a row with anyone?
      - wisemang 2y ago
        As a Canadian, obviously not. (For real though we don’t use that word for argument or whatever.)
  - BrandoElFollito 2y ago
    Funny, I just realised that I say "rooter" in French (because route ("roote") means way, like in English), but I say "rAWter" in English
    - ninalanyon 2y ago
      There are two words with the same spelling but separate pronunciations in British English: Router (rooter) the thing that routes packets in a newtwork Router (rowter) a machine tool that cuts grooves, etc., in wood or metal.
      - BrandoElFollito 2y ago
        Ah, so I pronounce the IT equipment wrong. I guess that "raw-ter" sounds really bad then.

dave333 2y ago

I emigrated from the UK to USA in 1980 and my first code review at Bell Labs I spent about 30 mins explaining my code and then asked if there were any final questions and someone hesitantly asked, "What is this variable 'zed' you keep talking about?"

dave333 2y ago
Having posted the above a few days ago, last night I (originally from the UK) was in the car with my wife (US born and bred) following and reciting map directions on my phone like "0.8 miles left on San Antonio" which I say as UK standard "nought point eight miles left on San Antonio." After a while she asks "what is nought?" Here we just say "point 8 miles" or "zero point eight miles." We've only been married 42 years and are still learning each other's language:-)
- 1659447091 2y ago
  Some time ago a few people from the UK kept calling/referring to someone as a nonce. It took me awhile to say something, but I finally asked because I simply couldn't understand or wrap my head around why they kept referring to this person as a single use random number (mostly for authentication in my case). It was so confusing.
rwmj 2y ago
I used to work for a networking start-up and when we were in the US trying - without success - to sell the company we practised over and over saying "roWter" for "router" (English pronunciation like "rooter").
- wcarss 2y ago
  As a Canadian I read that as "rOATer" for a moment, because the word row rhyming with ow is quite uncommon here -- the row I know is in a boating or a data context.
  - dfawcus 2y ago
    As a Brit, so did I. That said, a "rotor" would be pronounced as "rOATer" and has a completely different meaning. isn't English fun !
  - ninalanyon 2y ago
    You never have a row with anyone?
    - wisemang 2y ago
      As a Canadian, obviously not. (For real though we don’t use that word for argument or whatever.)
- BrandoElFollito 2y ago
  Funny, I just realised that I say "rooter" in French (because route ("roote") means way, like in English), but I say "rAWter" in English
  - ninalanyon 2y ago
    There are two words with the same spelling but separate pronunciations in British English: Router (rooter) the thing that routes packets in a newtwork Router (rowter) a machine tool that cuts grooves, etc., in wood or metal.
    - BrandoElFollito 2y ago
      Ah, so I pronounce the IT equipment wrong. I guess that "raw-ter" sounds really bad then.