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Cool name - I bet it sounds great with an American/Canadian accent. Using the UK/Australia/NZ accent, it's pronounced "zed-ell-aye", so I didn't grok it instant
by kingo55 1y ago
Cool name - I bet it sounds great with an American/Canadian accent. Using the UK/Australia/NZ accent, it's pronounced "zed-ell-aye", so I didn't grok it instantly like most of the audience here would.
- folkrav 1y ago“Zee” is getting more popular especially with gen Z (unintended) who were raised with more widespread access to American media, social or otherwise. Like many Commonwealth countries, most of Canada uses “zed”, however.
- kingo55 1y agoI stand corrected — Very unusual given how "similar" your accents are and your proximity to the states.
- folkrav 1y agoCanada is unusual in many ways, I’d say hehe. We never separated from the British like the colonies did, so the languages (quebecois French, too!) have kept a lot of British influences. About 2/3 of its relatively small population of 41 million lives in the first 100km north of the US border - an individual in British-Columbia is 8000km+ and 5-6 time zones away from someone in the Atlantic provinces. We’re similar to the US in how different every province can be from one another, I think.