Zee versus zed

[Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride]

This week I've been running visual acuity tests for year 7s. I soon noticed that about 80% of them say zee instead of zed. Now I know language changes etc, it's a mix of us influences and maybe learning phonics in primary, but it made me feel unaccountably sad.
Do your kids say zed or zee?

Rowt always puzzles me. You don't seem to hear Americans talking about rowt 66 do you?

Dictionaries follow usage, rather than dictating what's correct. So if people go around asking if they can "get a coffee" then sadly, this is going to be recorded.

Why sadly? Regardless of whether you're ok with get = buy, get = receive is long established.

You'll probably be appalled to learn that Aitch is the usual American pronunciation.

Herd we go again."Can I get" is the norm in much of Scotland.
You'd be laughed our of a shop if you said "Please may I have?"

it made me feel unaccountably sad.

Sad? Really?

The levver vs leather bit is quite funny. Vast swathes of the Anglophone world would never (nether?) mix those words up.

Also, the 'fitted' form of the verb 'to fit' would sound very grating to the American ear. If you were speaking American English, you would have said 'would have fit in context'.

Router as pronounced in British English calls to mind pigs rooting.

Funny thing, the ear.

Soother is a term used in Ireland.

Fanny pack also

I think the British pronunciation is Amaz'n, or AM-uh-zn. (A very truncated last syllable).

The American pronunciation is Am-uh-zon. The last syllable has the same emphasis as the first.

Can I get a coffee demands the response 'yes, next'

It really really doesn't.

Same in Ireland.

Americans are not good with French words.
Rowt for route is a perfect example.
As George W Bush once said....."The French don't have a word for entrepreneur".

Zed and Aitch

I’ve been pronouncing it like an American forever! 😄 (The website, at least. Weirdly, not the rainforest…)

zee
chips
schedule
math
lever
airplane
fall

All a losing battle in my classroom. I keep trying though.

How sad. Not that they use American English, but that they obviously spend a lot more time online than they do speaking to "the locals".

I always say Am-a-zon but I'm Scottish and we do tend to say every letter 😄

But are you "zee bra stripes" or "zeb ra stripes"

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford?

He probably uses American English because it's produced by Pushkin Industries and I think that's an American company.

My Huawei also has 'torch".

My 13y old tried to tell me I'm mom the other day. He also asked if his bag was in the trunk of the car! Too much time on you tube which has now been curtailed! Americatisation.

I love that the Channel 4 continuity announcer pronouncers Generation Z (new programme about geriatric zombies) as Generation ZED.

I've always said Generation ZED. I think I'm too old for all this stuff!