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#965. z ʸȯ (2) [z][alphabet][ame_bre][alphabet][new_zealand_english][americanism]

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ꥫѸǤ zee ȤƤȯˤĤơMencken (445) Τ褦˽Ҥ٤Ƥ롥

The name of the last letter of the alphabet, which is always zed in England and Canada, is zee in the United States. Thornton shows that this Americanism arose in the Eighteenth Century.


εҤȡzee ȯϥꥫѸȼκȤȤˤʤ뤬⿨줿褦ˡzee ȯϼŪǤϤäѸΥꥹѸˤäȤ¸ߤƤΤ顤äҡʤȤ򾷤ҤǤ롥ϡCassidy and Hall (191) εҤ򻲹ͤˤ٤

Though zed is now the regular English form, z had also been pronounced zee from the seventeenth century in England. Both forms were taken to America, but evidently New Englanders favored zee. When, in his American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), Noah Webster wrote flatly, "It is pronounced zee," he was not merely flouting English preference for zed but accepting an American fait accompli. The split had already come about and continues today.


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ʤ˥塼ɱѸǤϡǯǯؤ濴ˡŪʥꥹȯ zed äơꥫȯ zee äƤƤȤBailey (492) Ѥ褦

In data compiled in the 1980s, children younger than eleven offered zee as the name of the last letter of the alphabet while all those older than thirty responded with zed.


Mencken, H. L. The American Language. Abridged ed. New York: Knopf, 1963.
Cassidy Frederic G. and Joan Houston Hall. "Americanisms." The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. 6. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. 184--252.
Bailey, Richard W. "American English Abroad." The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. 6. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. 456--96.

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