when singing the alphabet...

[butterfly_warrior]

Zed!

As a high school maths teacher, I've learned not to use z as a pronumeral if I can possibly avoid it. It's always obvious which kids have grown up watching sesame street (they say zee), and as it's a pet hate of mine, it always derails the class into the zed/zee argument.

Please teach your child zed! For the sake of their future maths teacher's sanity!

BW

[rufalina]

My mum bought DS a fisher price thing and it sings the alphabet and it does ZED. I was very happy with that...

I am a ZED all the way.

[Pandora]

we say zed

the part i dont like with singing it is the 'ell em enna' letter that mysteriously appears between k and p, so we sing it slightly differently so that all the letters are distinguishable

[rufalina]

rayray...

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

My mother's given initials are L.M. - I did think it would have been amusing if my maiden name had been "Enopy".

BTW, I also hate "ella menopy" as a letter. Do you know how hard it is to say the oxidising agent "kay em en oh four" - KMnO(4) - with that song in your head?

[LucaJack'sMum]

My understanding is ...

Zee is American, in Oz we say Zed

Cheers!

[Liz]

isn't it 'lemon and a pea" ? hehehe

[Evie76]

Just like zeeeeeeeeebra................. it's zebra......

I am glad someone identified aytch.... I always say aytch and not haytch.

I also say 'nought', not 'oh'

There's a fair few kids shows that have quite a few amercanisms in them - Olivia for one, and that other one on in the morning - BG. Surely there are some decent British or Australian kids shows that can go on - Koala Brothers for example. Just too early in the morning for such rich American/Canadian accents, just too early for an Aussie girl.

I think we need to bring back a bit more of the British/Australian speak. It's actually a very good way of speaking.

[Muffy]

i say zee and HAYTCH...

[helle]

My mother's given initials are L.M. - I did think it would have been amusing if my maiden name had been "Enopy".

I just had to whipe my milo from my computer screen. If only!

I always say "zee" because it goes with "me" But every other time I say "zed"

[Marlene]

Jack has sing-a-long CD, one of the songs is an alphabet song...this is how it goes...

"w..x..y..zed..or a zee"

LOL, they put both in, just to confuse us even more, LOL.

[Jewel]

We say zed here too.

[berrme]

LOL at BG being VERY American. The other morning they were laughing about her falling on her fanny. Zee I can possibly overlook, but please don't start calling a bum a fanny, no matter what it rhymes with.

[*Ali*]

I would say zed as well. I actualley don't sing the alphabet song that much as when I do letter stuff with DD I do it letter and sound at the same time, because really the letter names are pretty useless on there own. That's just because I am a teacher and I am soooooooooo tired of trying to teach kids to read and write when they try sounding out with letter names instead of their sounds.