is it
.......wxy and zee?
or
........wxy and zed?
sorry silly question :redface:
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is it
.......wxy and zee?
or
........wxy and zed?
sorry silly question :redface:
Umm... I think it's 'zee' but only becasue that rhymes with "Next time won't you sing with me" ;) I'm not sure which way is phoenitcally (sp?) correct...
I alway say wxy and zed.
I say zed. And that's what they learn at day care and kindy also so I must be right LOL!
lori thats what makes it confusing!! zee rhymes with me but you say zed for zoo :dunno:
thats what we thought mel!! hoping a teacher would would be able to tell me
I say zed because my Dad is English so I was taught British English. DH learn English from Americans so he says zee.
We say zed here too but when singing it we say zee because it rhymes with me.
Americans say Zee, Australians say Zed.
Teach Zed so that DD doesnt get confused when she learns the alphabet names and sounds at school.
awesome thanks guys!!
I say ZED because I am speaking English and Im not American
It is a pet hate of mine when Australians say zee...really gets my goat!!
I pull strangers up for it :redface:
Saying ZEE is like saying HAYTCH instead of AYTCH
I only say zee when singing it. Otherwise it's zed when spelling things out etc.
We need an aussie ending to the song.. w, x, y & zed.. now I know my abc's now it's time to go to bed. LOL.
I do like that it all rhymes in the song tho.. a b c d e f GEE h i j k l m n o PEE q r s t u VEE w x y ZEE. I dunno.. just works hehe.
I'm sure if our children can cope with the other ridiculous broken rules in the english language they can cope with the letter Z being said 2 ways. When they sound out letters for the alphabet there's more than one sound for a lot of the letters.
I can remember a primary school teacher having a bee in her bonet about this. If we ever said 'zeee' she would say that we arn't american and we say 'Zed'.
But it doesn't rhyme!! haha. Maybe change the P to Ped and we would be all good!
Zed, zed, zed!
FWIW, although I say "Zed" when reading Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat comes Back, the CD we have is read by an Englishman and has the "Zee" pronunciation. The American film Men In Black has Agent Zed, so clearly the Yanks are aware of the correct alphabet somewhere along the line. Horses for courses, I suppose. But I still like Zed!
Aahh, Lime Slice, someone else as pedantic as me! My pet hate is putting K on the end of something/anything....Aaaargh. :wall:
Definitely Zed! We are Australian and Australians say Zed, whether singing or not.
'zed' is the prononciation of the Australian letter 'z'.
'zee' is the American pronounciation.
When singing the song it is true that 'zee' rhymes, this is because it is an American song.
The CC where the boys go teach them zed
I say zed also
It's zed because we aren't American! Teach the kids the Aussie way - there's enough American stuff in our language already.
I love that suggestion.:
We always sang xy Zed, now I know my abc's next time won't you sing with me
the c's and the me rhyme anyway and the Zee doesn't matter so much.
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
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.
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 :)
:rofl: rayray...
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?
My understanding is ...
Zee is American, in Oz we say Zed
Cheers!
isn't it 'lemon and a pea" ? hehehe
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.
i say zee and HAYTCH...
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"
Jack has sing-a-long CD, one of the songs is an alphabet song...this is how it goes...
LOL, they put both in, just to confuse us even more, LOL.:
"w..x..y..zed..or a zee"
We say zed here too. :)
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. :lol:
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.