"Why do americans say zee?" "Why do americans insist on using imperial?" "Why do americans call it soccer?" "Why does american food suck? Answer: the British
@apexlegend18446 ай бұрын
@@rustyshackleford83 Most of America has very good food it's just not traditional
@rustyshackleford836 ай бұрын
@@apexlegend1844 I like American food myself. That's just one of the things you always hear foreigners say about the states
@MichaelScheele8 ай бұрын
Plus, Zed Zed Top makes a lousy band name.
@AlexandertheGreat998 ай бұрын
🤭😂😂🤣🤣😜
@telegramsam8 ай бұрын
definitely the most important issue here
@jasonlescalleet56118 ай бұрын
I’ve heard arguments over whether the Rush instrumental “YYZ” should be pronounced “why why zee” or “why why zed” since they’re a Canadian band and Canada is often somewhere between the US and UK on so many things. Of course I know they’re both wrong. “YYZ” is the airport code for Toronto, and aviation folks pronounce those letter “Yankee Yankee Zulu.”
@wyattcole54528 ай бұрын
Wonder what they would’ve done instead. VV top would be cool
@KeweenawPatriot8 ай бұрын
Yep, we don't have words in our alphabet.
@arcticbanana66Ай бұрын
"A, B, C, D, E, F, Jed, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, Ped, Q, R, S, T, U, Ved, W, X, Y, and Zed. Now I've sung my ABSeds, next time won't you sing with med."
@user-cp3gr9lx3sАй бұрын
Bed,ced,ded,ed, and ted
@socaldebАй бұрын
You forgot how they pronounce H "Haitch"
@goldensloth7Ай бұрын
@@socaldeb americans do? never heard it, just aitch.
@naught0Ай бұрын
@@goldensloth7 No, some accents in the UK do. Americans say "aitch" rather than "haitch"
@paulinotou25 күн бұрын
I was joke thinking of this. Z happens to rhyme with V which is why we changed it to fit the song. I can't imagine thats the actual reason, but the song works with all the letters at the end of the line sounding with an ee sound. Maybe theres some truth to it
@dunkbuscusgaming70165 ай бұрын
I'm Australian and officially were supposed to pronounce it as Zed too but to me Zed is someone's name and Zee is the letter.
@OTPulse2 ай бұрын
Victorian?
@dunkbuscusgaming70162 ай бұрын
@@OTPulse No
@dunkbuscusgaming70162 ай бұрын
@@crystalh3 Yeah I even know someone who has the name my ex girlfriend's brother's name is Zed
@DarkMatterX12 ай бұрын
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
@zeddthesecond10192 ай бұрын
@crystalh3 yes Zed is a name, it's mine.
@PuffyCloud_aka_puffeclaude8 ай бұрын
It'll go over like a Zed Leppelin.
@nicolegreen33178 ай бұрын
Nicely done.
@NotSoHeartBroken8 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@chimchar878 ай бұрын
Nice joke 👍🏻
@FireflyGirl688 ай бұрын
Good one! 😂
@Donleecartoons8 ай бұрын
I zee what you did there.
@paraglidingprospector8 ай бұрын
Your graphics department really went all-out with that Z.
@AIA19907 ай бұрын
lol
@lilyofluck3717 ай бұрын
Gotta love me some practical effects :3
@ralphhathaway-coley54607 ай бұрын
You see it is all a tissue of lies.
@elkudos62627 ай бұрын
It does belong on toilet paper.
@thebeardedlady767 ай бұрын
That’s exactly what I was thinking 😂
@melodicgrogАй бұрын
Now I’m thinking of Brit’s ordering pizedzeda
@chefdownunder925 ай бұрын
Zed and nought are not the norm anymore in Australia. I reckon I was one of the last generations in Australia where we referred to 'Zz' as 'zed' and '0' as 'nought.' We were also taught to put a line through our noughts and the lowercase zed was that long 3-like character. Times have definitely changes because when I say nought as a number people look at me like I just spoke Russian 😅
@larrykramer49132 ай бұрын
Good for Australia every new generation is smarter than the last. In the U.S. slang for 0 is zilch. Or should we be saying zedilch? I think American pronunciation of English is the correct pronunciation. Because five times more Americans speak English than the British. The majority must be pronouncing English correctly!!! Sorry about stealing your language. Maybe they should change the name of the English language to American!!!!
@michaellayard50452 ай бұрын
Ok nought sure but zed is DEFINITELY still the norm
@Jojozilla426Ай бұрын
@@larrykramer4913 Can't tell if you're joking
@Jojozilla426Ай бұрын
Nobody says nought in the UK either
@RandomGuyyyАй бұрын
Math and Science has been completely Americanised globally. I say "Math" and "zero" even though I'm British.
@TheJestersDoor7 ай бұрын
As Americans, we decided it wasn't good enough to only drop your tea in the harbor, so we dropped the D as well☺️
@mikespearwood39147 ай бұрын
And you dropped the U in harbour etc etc.
@TheJestersDoor7 ай бұрын
@@mikespearwood3914 along with the i in aluminium
@azzajames76617 ай бұрын
And dropped the "U" in honour 😜
@BooBuKittyPhuk7 ай бұрын
@@mikespearwood3914 now that was witty Edit... but should've left it "dropped the u in _the_ harbour"
@Jay1227897 ай бұрын
And we replaced the que in the tail end of most words with a ck.
@pionosphere8 ай бұрын
British person: "Zed" Me: "How very French of you."
@koobs45497 ай бұрын
American person: “Zee” British person: “How very German of you” 😂
@Taima7 ай бұрын
@@koobs4549At least English is a Germanic language at heart.
@benjaminsawyer12927 ай бұрын
@@Taima And borrowed extensively from other languages. Touche.
@aresee82087 ай бұрын
@@koobs4549But German name of the letter z is Zett. 🤷🏻♂️
@Lion-O-Richie20407 ай бұрын
It’s actually green and Latin also. Not just German…
@timothyjackson46533 ай бұрын
Maybe some of the colonists were Dutch and were thinking of the Zider Zee
@benjaminmorris49623 күн бұрын
Z also rhymes with B, C, D, E, G, P, T, and V in the American alphabet. It rhymes with nothing in the British alphabet, unless Brits say Bed, C/Sed, Ded, Ed, G/Jed, Ped, Ted, and Ved...
@discordinc6 ай бұрын
As an American who has always wondered by Brits pronounce it zed, this is very enlightening
@ThatDamnPandaKai5 ай бұрын
*every* English-speaking country pronounces it zed, only the US doesn't.
@discordinc5 ай бұрын
I mean, I realize that now. The US is very good a teaching you that "no, it's the rest of the world that does it weird"
@zidane84524 ай бұрын
@@discordincoh and keep in mind that "realize" is rather spell with an S in the UK. So it also changes up in words too
@diorsse2 ай бұрын
@@zidane8452 usually british spelling is more aesthetically pleasing (like colour or favourite is just infinitely better than color or favorite) but i think the "z" instead of "s" thing is the one thing we got right. "realize" just sounds right
@zidane84522 ай бұрын
@@diorsse I do also prefer the ou spelling too. Spelling it with a O without the U looks wrong to me, but sometimes when I'm lazy or typing fast I spell colour without the U. Realize,organization,apologize etc... with an S always looked wrong to me ngl. In Jamaica we usually spell them with a Z so the S in those words always looked strange to me but nowadays I'm seeing more people spell it with an S so I'm now use to it.
@Manga_Lloyd7 ай бұрын
I love it when Brits have to find out that they're actually the ones responsible for "zee" and "soccer." 😂😂😂
@doithimaceabhard74577 ай бұрын
I think Webster is more to blame for this abomination catching on but I think everybody knows Soccer is the correct English word it's just the only game played exclusively using your feet to motivate a ball
@mr.d.65297 ай бұрын
Soccer, is an Americanism taken from Association
@Manga_Lloyd6 ай бұрын
@doithimaceabhard7457 which kinda makes you wonder why English people started calling the game by that name first. Americans adopted the word because that's the name English people were calling it at the time. It then fell out of favor for football instead. I can't blame 'em, it certainly makes more sense, but Americans didn't come up with the word. For some reason, many English folks don't know that little tidbit.
@Perfectly_Cromulent3516 ай бұрын
@@doithimaceabhard7457football is called football because it’s played on foot, not because you use your feet. It was coined during a time when games on horseback were popular as well. Also, football is a family of sports, not a single sport. It includes association football (soccer), rugby, Aussie rules, Gaelic football, and N. American gridiron football.
@spaceman93966 ай бұрын
Indeed Zed is an abomination. Imagine if every letter had a forced identity crisis lol. Leave Z alone
@apocalypticpioneers21168 ай бұрын
Oh wow, so this is one of the rare cases where we actually diverged on our own
@eglol8 ай бұрын
Omg
@twitchy_bird8 ай бұрын
Kind of, that one British dude wrote zee too he said
@apocalypticpioneers21168 ай бұрын
@@twitchy_birdTrue but that was probably a rarity, my bet is it was probably a regional thing if it was already in Britain
@WVgirl19598 ай бұрын
We always have. They drive on the left we drive on the right, they say a word one way, we say it the other way. We didn't want to be like them and made our country our own.😊
@MichaelClark-bd2sw8 ай бұрын
And got it right!
@ThurstonCyclist5 ай бұрын
In American pronunciation, every letter either begins or ends with a vowel sound. In standard British English, A through Y begin or end with a vowel sound, and Zed does neither.
@sellyourhomenowbook3 ай бұрын
Wait what about F?
@ThurstonCyclist3 ай бұрын
@@sellyourhomenowbook which is spoken like "eff" instead of "fff"
@markbrazier2432 ай бұрын
What about Q?
@strangevision992 ай бұрын
Zed finishes the alphabet, it's allowed to be different. Just like Q demands it goes nowhere without U, and some letters just wanna be pronounced exactly the same as others at certain times, letters have their quirks.
@Shayron19892 ай бұрын
Not quite. Most Brits pronounce ‘h’ as ‘haych’ rather than the ‘aych’ in American pronunciation.
@englishgalmd3 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Also, scurvy is vitamin C deficiency. So while the newly arrived Puritans probably had scurvy after their long voyage which lacked adequate vitamin C sources, it was not contagious. Incidentally, members of the British Navy were called limeys because they were given rations of limes and lemons to prevent scurvy, but that was well after these early American settlers arrived by ship.
@toddtanner9512 күн бұрын
Looks like their letter Z also had a D deficiency
@thetomahawk61887 ай бұрын
It’s hilarious how Brits pronounce Z as Zed and Zeta as Zee-ta but Americans pronounce Z as Zee and Zeta as Zeh-ta
@BadseedGarden7 ай бұрын
Thats because if the word doesnt end in E, or have a two Es youre supposed to pronounce it with a soft E, Zey-ta. It would only be Zee-ta in america if it were spelled Zeeta.
@MisterTTG7 ай бұрын
Seems like it falls under the trend where Brits say some loanwords like they're english words, and Americans approximate the original pronunciation, like jaguar, herb, fillet, pasta, etc.
@Kepora17 ай бұрын
It's not hilarious, just correct.
@wild1807 ай бұрын
@@BadseedGardenzebra
@penderyn87947 ай бұрын
He keeps WRONGLY using the word British to mean English. British is an old word for native Celtic peoples such as Welsh. .... The English language is English not British .... There is no such thing as British English because Welsh and Scots have different forms of English historically
@humanperson4508 ай бұрын
Why is something weird in English? Blame the French. Why something weird in American English? Blame Daniel Webster 😆
@priscillajimenez277 ай бұрын
Don't hate on Webster lol
@pretzelbomb61057 ай бұрын
@@priscillajimenez27 No hate at all. He wrote the book on American English. The literate write the records, after all.
@OldNavajoTricks7 ай бұрын
The Devil take him I say! The Devil and Daniel Webster is a story.
@davidwesley25257 ай бұрын
@humanperson450 That's NOAH Webster who Created the American Dictionary. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
@OldNavajoTricks7 ай бұрын
@@davidwesley2525 I'd like to play my "Not a yank don't care' card please Alex... 🤘😂 Meh, so you guys uh you have more than one Webster huh? ... ... GOOD for you! (Friendly arm punch.) Plus I blame humanperson450.
@seven4715 ай бұрын
Zedd in America is a southern uncle that shows up at the family reunion
@ephwurd2yurMother5 ай бұрын
No that's jed if you're gonna insult America do it properly
@E4439Qv55 ай бұрын
Short for Zedediah
@robert-jason-king3 ай бұрын
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
@E4439Qv53 ай бұрын
@@robert-jason-king *_Zedd's dead baby._*
@adiabeticdisproves46245 ай бұрын
I just like that you have it written on a paper towel.
@jollygoodfellow39577 ай бұрын
I'm not calling it Dragon Ball Zed, fight me.
@unreal4good3676 ай бұрын
I'm here to back you up.
@OniNoSweeney6 ай бұрын
The fight would take 26 episodes.
@no_dogs6 ай бұрын
Go on then bru'v I'll have ya
@Aconitum_napellus5 ай бұрын
It is indeed Dragon Ball Zed. Same for that god awful film World War Zed.
@dugonman83605 ай бұрын
Don't the Brits just call all of it Dragon ball anyway?
@tnt-boom6 ай бұрын
I have come to the conclusion if Britain and America have a language difference. You can usually trace the American version back to Britain.
@kalinystazvoruna87025 ай бұрын
Actually, in the 17th & 18th Centuries, everyone pronounced things pretty much the same in both Britain, America, Canada, etc. It's only in the 19th Century that the British got snotty and decided to start that silly "Received Pronunciation" crap.
@twhimsy5 ай бұрын
The American Southern accent is supposedly very close to what British aristocrats sounded like back during the initial founding. They just kept the accent (as rich enslavers) as Britain evolved theirs further 🤷
@kalinystazvoruna87025 ай бұрын
@@twhimsy I think that it was the 18th Century British accent, not just in the South, but in Canada as well. Canadanians pretty much have the same accent (unless in your in Quebec) that Americans have, although the American accent has been fracturing in the last 200 years which is why you have a "Midwest" accent, or a "Northeast" accent, or a "Southern" accent, etc. Personally, I think the so-called "Received Pronunciation" was "invented" to distinguish the upper class British snobs from the "colonies". That's just my take and not admissible evidence in a court of law. 😸
@firexgodx9804 ай бұрын
No you can trace it back to Webster, the genius who fixed many broken things with English.
@JCDofNYC3 ай бұрын
The United States and England: two nations separated by a common language.
@DILFDylF5 ай бұрын
"Zed" does not follow the pronunciation patterns of all other letters. It sticks out like a sore thumb. Zee matches B, C, D, E, G, P, T, and V. What letter would match zed? None.
@NautilusGuitars4 ай бұрын
Exactly. The justification is that it's in line with the original name of the letter but that's ridiculous, as no other letters get that treatment. Imagine "alpha, beta, cappa, delta" etc. It's one of the only language differences I care about, because it just seems utterly ridiculous and nonsensical. It's just archaic and follows no consistent logic.
@emmanarotzky65654 ай бұрын
But there are plenty of letters that use different pronunciation patterns. L isn’t Lee, R isn’t Ree, M isn’t Mee, etc.
@NautilusGuitars4 ай бұрын
@@emmanarotzky6565 but no other letter adds a different consonant. The only exception is W, and that's because it's a literal description instead of a pronunciation. Any pronounced letter is the letter plus a vowel sound before or after the letter.
@DILFDylF4 ай бұрын
@@emmanarotzky6565 But those letters also follow a pattern, just a different one. ell, emm, enn, arr, ess, exx; L, M, N, R, S, X. Vowel sound followed by the sound the letter makes. H is probably the only odd one out. Maybe it should be pronounced "hee". I mean it sounds stupid now but if that's how it always was it would make more sense. Also W but the other commenter addressed it.
@johng40934 ай бұрын
We'll eventually get around to fixing the other letters too. 😊
@millermichael4 ай бұрын
“Why do Americans?” Because we won.
@ShortBreaksCheapEscapes4 ай бұрын
Won what ?
@AccelerateHedge4 ай бұрын
Guess
@supercaveman4 ай бұрын
Only because we had help from the French.
@millermichael4 ай бұрын
@@supercaveman “Hon Hon! Zee!”😂
@livelongandprosper704 ай бұрын
God your dumb 🤦
@douglasstrother65847 ай бұрын
Next up: "Math" versus "Maths".
@Wiz-xm7mv7 ай бұрын
You mean maahphs bruuv
@maidenminnesota17 ай бұрын
Yeah, it's mathematics, not mathsematics.
@ironcheater10127 ай бұрын
@@maidenminnesota1Same thing could be said for the reverse. Its mathematics, not mathematic
@ShortArmOfGod6 ай бұрын
Because mathematics isn't plural.
@mwsn7366 ай бұрын
@@ironcheater1012you could also say that it’s mathematically correct and not mathsematically correct
@bridgecross8 ай бұрын
"Zed" sounds more like a full word than a letter. But then there's "Doubleyou" which is a word so strange people avoid thinking about it.
@Lahdee8 ай бұрын
in spanish it is called "duble ve" which is just double vee, essentially vv = w
@Touma1348 ай бұрын
It's also a double U. It's not even called its own thing but is just describing the fact it's just two Us put together.
@johncoops68978 ай бұрын
@@Touma134- it is two V except when you write like a 6 year old...
@honolulublues55488 ай бұрын
@@johncoops6897when English was developed, people wrote in cursive, which the letter looked more like uu over vv.
@rdhunkins8 ай бұрын
U's were originally V's. I've seen "E. PLVRIBVS VNVM" written in stone.
@SSgreen092 ай бұрын
Love the pencil on folded paper towel. Very professional 😂😂
@zoyadulzura7490Ай бұрын
"Zee" just fits better with the pattern of the other letters. Along the same lines, I advocate for changing "double-yoo" to "wee". The song can easily be altered to go as "tee yoo vee, wee and ex, wai and zee."
@Ted_II7 ай бұрын
What I've always wondered is why we call it "double-yew" instead of something with just one syllable like "wuh"
@chance2smoke7 ай бұрын
Should be double vee
@fobinc7 ай бұрын
Spaniards were smart, they call it double v.
@BlindJedi7 ай бұрын
English teacher here. Derived from the old letter, Wynn. Representing the sound a W makes. Still stupid they saw it, felt it looked like two letters mushed together, and changed its name.
@Freya_Blue7 ай бұрын
@@fobincum...once upon a time U and V were the same letter. Also, looks-wise, depends what font it's written in if it's uu or vv
@johnjennings79997 ай бұрын
In Sweden, we pronounce that letter vee-vee
@jenniferhanses7 ай бұрын
You're actually missing a huge piece in the story of Z. Zee is pronounced as such in England, specifically the West County area. Or at least it used to be. And most American colonists were from the West Counties area. So they took their regional pronunciation with them. The ABC song, though, is why it is completely stuck throughout the whole of the US. Anyway, chalk up another one on the Americans do it the way they do because that's how people in the UK used to do it until they decided it wasn't posh enough board.
@jayjack62997 ай бұрын
Just like the term Soccer. They hate us for the term they gave us and then abandoned!
@ozfifer73927 ай бұрын
Hmm, yes, a very prestigious board indeed.
@scirrhia_kruden7 ай бұрын
The board is just a wall of solid chalk at this point.
@jh25197 ай бұрын
Like Soccer.
@roycehuepers43257 ай бұрын
Us in the south saying yall is another similar example. Though it was likely from the Scottish
@mabus49105 ай бұрын
And yet the internet goes crazy when you say that american english is older than UK english.
@EighmyLupin4 ай бұрын
This^ Americans speak not only an older form of English, but we also tend to pronounce the words the way the original language that created the word does. The English basically stole a bunch of random words from every language on the planet and then refused to pronounce any of them correctly.
@veroniquejeangille82482 ай бұрын
This would be an absurd thing to say, considering the USA is much younger than the UK. More correct would be that the English spoken in the USA has retained older forms of the language than current-day British English.
@mabus49102 ай бұрын
@@veroniquejeangille8248 That is a more precise explanation. But in essence, it's exactly what I wanted to say.
@Shayron19892 ай бұрын
The reason this is a mad thing to say is because UK English is far too varied to make a generic statement like that. It may be true of RP English pronunciation but that accounts for about 3% of the UK population. 😅
@JerryN79706 ай бұрын
Funny, as a 53 year old American, I never realized British pronounce it Zed until just a few years ago! LOL I also found out recently a lot of words Americans use with a z, the British use an s. Like realize/realise for example. And when I wrote that last sentence, my spell checker actually tried to autocorrect “realise” to “realize”. 😂
@abc-coleaks-info31802 ай бұрын
I got hammered on a spelling test in school for spelling color with the U in it. I new then that they were sabotaging my education 😂
@JerryN79702 ай бұрын
@@abc-coleaks-info3180 🤣
@kennethnaughton12057 ай бұрын
Dang, never knew the Alphabet Song was a diss track
@CaptainKwame17736 ай бұрын
Lmao it basically is! Like how Washington Irving basically started the lie that Europeans thought the earth was flat. They very much knew it was round. Kinda back fired tho 😅 lol
@AF_18926 ай бұрын
Sorority chants are total diss tracks, even though we are cheering. I do really like "Chi Oh! Because we're hot'! They were. They werent at my University. I worked with some at A&F and yes, they were hot. DZ's still the best.
@rustyshackleford836 ай бұрын
@@CaptainKwame1773ironically, the modern belief in flat earth was kickstarted by an Englishman
@CantTellYou5 ай бұрын
How did the letter “Z” come from “zeta” if the letter Z didn’t even exist?!?! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
@matt92hun5 ай бұрын
Brits really do butcher that song.
@toughenupfluffy72947 ай бұрын
Same reason Americans prefer coffee over tea: just to anger the British.
@B-A-L6 ай бұрын
Why does that anger us?
@fancyelk23736 ай бұрын
@@B-A-L have you never seen comments sections before? The British stay mad at all times baby 😂
@ctrononon6 ай бұрын
They never stop thinking about us@@fancyelk2373
@chloeedmund43506 ай бұрын
Did you see the news about putting salt in tea and the US embassy's response?
@TomTomicMic6 ай бұрын
@@chloeedmund4350 No, and the tax dodgers had to have coffee from South of the border down Mexico way because they didn't want to pay the tax!?!
@quantumcomata105Ай бұрын
I had no idea the British called it Zed until I started to watch Serpentza on KZbin last year.
@penteractgaming2 ай бұрын
I think this is the only time the answer was "americans changed" rather than the british.
@morefiction32648 ай бұрын
Webster. Explains many differences between American and British English.
@globalheart8 ай бұрын
But even Webster can be questioned!!
@Fanimati0n8 ай бұрын
@globalheart Webster freed us from the hellish old spelling of jail (gaol), so his word is god to me
@seedsoflove76848 ай бұрын
@@Fanimati0nI'm so grateful to Noah.
@globalheart8 ай бұрын
@Fanimati0n 😄 ...well that word in particular, Gaol, could so easily be confused as a mispelt Gael in written form, lol. Look at how many surnames were botched coming through Ellis Island... it DOES help to alter certain words a bit, sometimes! But no single person knew everything, not even Webster. Even with information so easily transferred nowadays, we still dig to learn, and must keep digging!
@stubstoo63318 ай бұрын
@@globalheartanyone that came through Ellis island weren't even English.🤦🤦
@afterlife6977 ай бұрын
Let’s just take a minute to realize the alphabet song has been around since 1828!!
@resourcedragon7 ай бұрын
I thought he was just being a smart arse with that, like people saying, "Lincoln said that you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet."
@afterlife6977 ай бұрын
@@resourcedragon the song was originally copyrighted in 1835
@dw96667 ай бұрын
The song had 27 letters, & was considered a letter
@PositiveOnly-dm3rx6 ай бұрын
How British kids sing the alphabet: Ad Bed Ced Ded Ed fed ged 😂😂😂
@TomTomicMic6 ай бұрын
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx How Yanks sing the alphabet "Alfaaaaa.....Bet"!?!
@ilivision3 ай бұрын
your accent made me sit in a fancy sofa and drink black tea
@harringtonvoАй бұрын
Is that toilet paper? Subtle Brit humor at it’s best. Well done m8
@calebmcurby85808 ай бұрын
When I was a kid watching MIB, I always wondered why Zed didn't go by a letter...
@JBB6857 ай бұрын
@@FuryanJedi13that’s the point of the comment.
@pricklypear36257 ай бұрын
@@FuryanJedi13 Whoooooosh.
@koobs45497 ай бұрын
When I was a kid listening to Bush’s debut album, I had no idea the name of the album was actually 224lbs 😂
@LRM12o87 ай бұрын
@koobs4549 you mean 101 kg? Yeah, that's a banger of an album! 👍
@ttt50207 ай бұрын
tbf it's rather consistent with the B C D E G P T V pattern of 'sound the letter makes + ee'. If Beta became Bee, Zeta should become Zee!
@JibrailJones6 ай бұрын
So why don’t we have F = “fee”, G = “ghee”, H = “hee”, J = “jee”, K = “kee” ETC. ?
@Beyondthe5thPanel6 ай бұрын
@@JibrailJonesthat’s hilarious to try! I’m gonna have to attempt to song the alphabet that way
@ttt50206 ай бұрын
@@Beyondthe5thPanel aee bee cee dee eee fee ghee, hee iee jee kee lee mee nee oui pee, quee ree see, tee uhee vee, wee xee, yee and zee!
@PositiveOnly-dm3rx6 ай бұрын
How British kids sing the alphabet: Ad Bed Ced Ded Ed fed ged 😂😂😂
@PositiveOnly-dm3rx6 ай бұрын
@@ttt5020 Ad Bed Ced Ded Ed fed ged 😂😂😂
@BlueBrained5 ай бұрын
I'm just stuck on him writing on paper towels
@tinpin6093 ай бұрын
I love that…every one of these episodes can reduced to British ignorance and narcissism.
@Robert412656 ай бұрын
You might notice, in America, most of our consonants avoid using extra consonant sounds in their names, except maybe 'H' which uses a 'CH' sound and 'W' which uses the entire word 'double'. This better isolates the sound of the letter.
@kamikeserpentail37785 ай бұрын
Which leads me to: It's called a zebra not a zedbra. Which is a joke not to be taken seriously at all
@MadocComadrin5 ай бұрын
We say double-u because saying the sound betrays the fact that it ought to be a vowel.
@Robert412655 ай бұрын
@MadocComadrin Never heard that about 'W'. It's 'Y' that I've always heard could go either way. I've always been under the impression it was because of its shape, like two 'U's (UU), as to which I've always thought two 'V's would be more accurate (VV). I don't think 'double vee' will catch on anytime soon, though (in the US). 😉
@aeromoe5 ай бұрын
A lot of Brits...maybe all...pronounce H as 'haych' and not 'aych' as Americans do.
@MxMe-su1ch5 ай бұрын
The secret is the vowel sounds, not the consonants. All English consonant names begin or end with a vowel sound. So zed and haytch have always been wrong.
@denisdooley15408 ай бұрын
My first college statistics class was taught by an Aussie professor. I spent over a year thinking it was called a "zed score" (and just abbreviated "z") until I took another statistics class from a guy from California.
@heard38798 ай бұрын
That's hilarious!!!!
@rosiefay72837 ай бұрын
By which time you'd already learned its name, so in this case it wouldn't have been quite so hard to work out what this guy from California was saying through his American dialect.
@benjaminmorris49627 ай бұрын
@@rosiefay7283 No shit he could easily understand the California dialect, he's American himself 😂
@greenberrygk2 ай бұрын
“They brought the zed pronunciation as well as scurvy” 😂
@flurmpf91105 ай бұрын
It just makes sense for a sound for a letter to be rid of fluff
@d.h.47788 ай бұрын
“As well as scurvy.” 😂😂
@magnusmalmborn86658 ай бұрын
Unlike many other diseases they brought, scurvy is not contagious so the impact ought to have been minimal.
@d.h.47788 ай бұрын
@@magnusmalmborn8665 I like your information! Thank you for sharing! I didn’t know that! (All of that is said genuinely!!) ☺️
@damiencouturee62407 ай бұрын
@@d.h.4778Yep, scurvy is caused by not having enough vitamin C for long periods, which is why it was so common on old ships. People couldn't really take fruits with them as they would spoil quickly, so there was no source of vitamin C for months upon months at a time. Fun (maybe) fact - the British navy started carrying limes on their ships once people started figuring out the correlation between fruit and scurvy, which is why they were called limeys. That might be more story than hard fact though.
@Deschutron7 ай бұрын
Like the scurvy, the pronunciation "Zed" ultimately didn't last.
@d.h.47787 ай бұрын
@@damiencouturee6240 I love learning!! Thank you for your definite fact, and your maybe fact!!!
@christaverduren6907 ай бұрын
I first heard it in 1990 when a Canadian roommate had a ZED 28 car. I was confused until I saw it and said, That's a ZEE 28...........and the fight began...
@monicarenee79496 ай бұрын
I first heard zed when I worked for an international company and folks from New Zealand were on a project with me. For a while I didn’t understand what they were saying until it finally clicked. I feel silly now for not knowing it wasn’t the same in every country but to be honest I had never had a way to even hear it before then
@Dargonhuman6 ай бұрын
I had the same confusion whenever someone would talk about the "ZX Spectrum" home computer and pronounced it "zed ex".
@trinidad24505 ай бұрын
You crack me up!
@turdferguson29825 ай бұрын
Which I'm sure you won and they have been making excuses for since then.
@robm99995 ай бұрын
And since then you became aware you were pronouncing it wrong ever since. Lol
@redslate18 күн бұрын
We also intentionally changed the spelling of many words to include the letter Z to further distinguish American English from British English.
@theemmjay51302 ай бұрын
I always liked the fact that the leader in Men in Black used the British pronunciation.
@meatballhead158 ай бұрын
When I first learned that the English pronounced that letter "Zed", my first thought was "What about the ABC song?!?"
@johncoops68978 ай бұрын
Only American people need a song to remember the letters of the alphabet. They never made a song to remember their states, which is why almost none of them know those. EDIT: I have now learnt that I was wrong about the "US States Song" however I doubt it is taught at schools now days, since being replaced by gender studies 😃
@bvbxiong57918 ай бұрын
my first thought was WHAT THE EVER LIVING BLEEP IS THAT?
@jovetj8 ай бұрын
You mean Add Bed Ced? ♬ Add Bed Ced Ded Edd Fed Ged, Hed, Id, Jed, Ked, Led-Med-Ned-Oed-Ped, Qued, Red, Sed, Ted, Ued, Ved, Wed, Xed, Yed, and Zed! ♫
@gardenplots2838 ай бұрын
@@johncoops6897There was a song for naming the states alphabetically when I was in school.
@allisondaugherty59638 ай бұрын
@@gardenplots283Fifty Nifty United States...
@EdgeDC6 ай бұрын
More important than B, C, & D in the ABC song, is the American Z’s rhyme with G, P, and V… because those letters are the ones at the end of the previous 3 lines in the song. Also, American Z rhymes with “me” at the very end of the song.
@AncestralGratitude855 ай бұрын
Next time won't you sing with med 😬
@TorTheWeirdo4 ай бұрын
lol I’m laughing at the thought of saying “double you, ex, why and zed” and the end of the alphabet song 😂🤣 that would sound so ridiculous 😭😂
@EdgeDC4 ай бұрын
@@TorTheWeirdo The best use of “Zed” is in Pulp Fiction: “Zed’s dead, baby… Zed’s dead.”
@OTPulse2 ай бұрын
@TorTheWeirdo Zed sounds better than Zee. Zed sounds far more final, end of the song.
@TorTheWeirdo2 ай бұрын
@@OTPulse it doesn’t rhyme with the song though. The song also doesn’t end there. It ends with “next time won’t you sing with me.”
@lisasmith70665 ай бұрын
Love your page! 🙏❤️🏴🇺🇸
@littlemeg13718 күн бұрын
American ham radio operators still use zed when reading off single letters, but not using ITU standard phonetics.
@piretkivi32187 ай бұрын
I watched a murder mystery where a British person said ZEE. I thought: "Damn, the director made a mistake." Except that it wasn't a mistake. The Brit was really an American and the culprit.
@eighteenfiftynine7 ай бұрын
Well then you made the mistake. No American ever did a convincing English accent.
@straightwhitemale9667 ай бұрын
@@eighteenfiftynine it was probably a british actor that made a convincing american accent after they got caught
@dairoleon26827 ай бұрын
Tbf, English accents vary as much by zip code as American ones do by state, but Americans will accept "no accent" as a passable American accent.
@SCIFIguy647 ай бұрын
The only non-accent region in America is between Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. It’s kind of a neutral zone between southern twang, eastern slur, western laziness and Minnesota nice.
@resourcedragon7 ай бұрын
I read a murder mystery in which the alibi all hinged on English vs US ways of writing the date. I really wish the Americans used a more logical way of writing the date because it can add a lot of complication when you are coding and the complier thinks it should read the date one way and then translate it into the other.
@ingamelevi19298 ай бұрын
"Who's Zed?" "Zed's dead, baby"
@tylerlong77337 ай бұрын
blueberry pancakes and why does your watch smell so bad?
@dmacarthur53567 ай бұрын
It's a chopper, baby.
@scot60897 ай бұрын
A ponch?
@realzachfluke17 ай бұрын
Just blame it on my youth 🎧🧑🎤
@chipsthedog17 ай бұрын
Never considered it before your comment but now I am always going to think why was his name zed not zee
@Quarrenn175 ай бұрын
Um, I’m sorry to say but as someone who took Greek…. Zeta’s proper pronunciation is much closer to the American version. It used the letter η, which makes a long e sound, almost exactly what you said Americans call it. The only things wrong with that pronunciation is that there should be a very slight t sound at the beginning and the a is also long, like the a in father. That said, I took Koine Greek, so Greek from the 1st century, so the modern Greek might pronounce it a little differently.
@etherealdragon207Ай бұрын
Makes more sense since most of the names of consonants are the sound they make, followed by an E.
@MMuraseofSandvich8 ай бұрын
The UK pronunciation of zeta is closer to modern Greek, while the American pronunciation is closer to classical Greek (if memory serves). The Americans had a thing about ancient Greece, especially when Washington, DC was built...
@linkskywalker54177 ай бұрын
And a certain part of anatomy that the ancient Greeks were fascinated with.
@fishingthelist40178 ай бұрын
My kids never liked it when I sang W X Y and Zed.
@catherinerobilliard76628 ай бұрын
I used to say “X, Y, Zee or Zed, now I’ve said my A,B,C…”
@idealizedx89248 ай бұрын
Bc they know you're a fuckin mutant freak
@danielgodfrey44155 ай бұрын
Z! ¡El hombre con el sombrero nos envió! ¡Él nos cuenta muchas historias asombrosas!
@danielray14845 ай бұрын
Ho ho ho ho
@lalalasvegas13 ай бұрын
What’s up with the paper towel? You put so much time into this video but couldn’t waste a second looking for paper 😂
@iamnoone218 ай бұрын
I always assumed it was changed so the end of the ABC song would rhyme
@bobtheduck8 ай бұрын
Me too... Considering it arose about the same time as the song, I still hold out hope that this was the real reason.
@GiratinaGX8 ай бұрын
@@bobtheduckthere is no reason it can’t be a bit of both. The song author noticed that zed doesn’t rhyme, so he/she changed into into zee
@urphakeandgey63088 ай бұрын
I think this video kind of suggests that. He didn't explicitly state it, but he did bring up the song and how it probably influenced the pronunciation.
@nevreiha7 ай бұрын
rhyme with V? seems a bit arbitrary to choose to rhyme it with any preceding letter from the song without any specific structure. I always said it up to UVW in song and just tacked on the XYZ in a lower note
@bobtheduck7 ай бұрын
@@nevreiha The issue is where the phase is broken. G, P, V, Z
@anaunaga54717 ай бұрын
Imagine singing the whole abc’s song and then ending it by saying “zed”.thats a punch in the throat.
@corriehingston67447 ай бұрын
Nah. "Zee" makes it sound unfinished
@Mangeen7 ай бұрын
Zed sounds very conclusive as the sound goes down. Zee doesn't as the sound goes up.
@anaunaga54717 ай бұрын
Zed just doesn’t fit very well. It makes more sense to follow a pattern like Bee, See, Dee, than… Zed? No Zee is better.
@Mangeen7 ай бұрын
@@anaunaga5471 There's lots of letters that don't end with the "ee" sound. Not sure why you're picking out these specifically.
@Twili86976 ай бұрын
@corriehingston6744 nope
@dennisdose56972 ай бұрын
Watching Top Gear reruns has me saying "zed."
@GenuinelyHorriblePerson5 ай бұрын
The most suprising part about this to me is that we know where the abc song came from 😂
@seantimmons59008 ай бұрын
Random thing that has bothered me forever... There is a company Zee in the British Army. How did that happen?
@cavalieroutdoors60367 ай бұрын
Comingling with Americans in World War I and/or II would be the most likely answer. "Sir, the Americans keep calling us Company Zee." "So...what's the problem?" "Well, sir...we're Company Zed." "OK, so the Americans are knobs. What do you want me to do about it?" "I don't know, but last week they shot at us because they thought they were supposed to rendezvous with Company Zee." "Sod it, we're Company Zee now! I've got more important things to deal with. Now bugger off!"
@rosselliot89718 ай бұрын
My Brit friend just loves the music of ZedZed Top.
@samk24075 ай бұрын
This is the first time I've ever seen one of these that it wasn't just originally the British way of doing it
@NoNoBigWhite5 ай бұрын
Actually, it WAS the Scurvy. It's hard to pronounce "ZED" when your teeth are falling out and your gums are bleeding.
@stephenfuller21196 ай бұрын
British: "look at those beautiful Zedbras on the African plains, we should put them in a Zedoo"
@user-qx1om2wj1h3 ай бұрын
While listening to jazzed.
@aidinniplays3 ай бұрын
@@user-qx1om2wj1hjazedzed
@LarryTL3 ай бұрын
@@user-qx1om2wj1hjazedzed
@keith324822 ай бұрын
Wouldn't it be jazedzed?😂
@wreconteur132 ай бұрын
The British legit say "zeh-bras"! It's jarring at first, then hilarious! 😂
@elenasimon12707 ай бұрын
Zed hits the rhyming like a load of lead.
@azzajames76617 ай бұрын
The "A" doesn't rhyme with any letters either, so the start and finish should not rhyme with a "Zed"😜
@prodigalsonresurrection7 ай бұрын
@@azzajames7661"A" rhymes with "J" and "K"
@azzajames76617 ай бұрын
@prodigalsonresurrection But they are not near each other😆 Zed is a full stop, the end and should not rhyme,...full stop 😜
@Mila_Brearey7 ай бұрын
@@prodigalsonresurrection they rhyme only. A,J & K do not sound like eachother ... whereas C & Zee do.
@markrossow63034 ай бұрын
in the BBC drama North by Northampton, a character asks about the American rapper Jay-Zed
@keillorchristoph6 ай бұрын
Question I have is with the typewriter keyboard either they should have done it in alphabetical order or change the damn alphabet to make it easier to remember where the damn letters are in order
@mscott543217 ай бұрын
"Why do Americans say 'zee'? Simple - because it's easier to rhyme with the other letters." Reminds me of that related eternal question: "Why are the letters of the alphabet in that order? Simple - because of the song."
@lilleeanne87806 ай бұрын
This is one of my favorite videos youve done..."they brought the zed pronunciation as well as scurvy" lol. " An Englishman, don't you know". Love the history and humor (as opposed to humour).
@ThatGuyThatHasSpaghetiiCode3 ай бұрын
You've*
@389OpiE4 ай бұрын
Long story short Americans were mind blown when that new ABC song dropped and they switch up how they pronounced z
@jamesreid86386 ай бұрын
The New England area had some influence from Dutch settlers in the Hudson River Valley, and this may have influenced their dialect.
@What_Makes_Climate_Tick7 ай бұрын
A guy I was in a college band was named Mark Zender. His nickname was Z and when we went on a tour in Canada, we called him Zed.
@randywatts69697 ай бұрын
😆
@m10domedia8 ай бұрын
So basically, a bunch of people decided it should be Z to be similar to BCDEGPT and V. And then the alphabet song solidified it more because it rhymed with G, P, V, C, and "me".
@DaPopeANata8 ай бұрын
I've always joked that the American pronunciation was because somebody wanted the song to rhyme. I guess I was closer to the truth than I realised.
@eglol8 ай бұрын
Yeah, so instead of Z being a special letter it's just like all the others 😢
@runisa8 ай бұрын
Bed ded ced ed ged ved
@ReddoFreddo8 ай бұрын
You're WRONG your logic is FLAWED and INCOHERENT and INVALID because zed rhymes with alphabet, which is CLEARLY a much better rhyme than zee and vee. 'Now you know the alphabet' rhymes with zed. Your argument is MUTE.
@chrismanuel97688 ай бұрын
@@ReddoFreddoThat doesn't rhyme.
@ritaspeers1259Ай бұрын
THANK YOU! I'd wondered about that!
@Vajrayogini-pp1grАй бұрын
Whoa I just sooooooo love your video 👍🏽!
@marywenzel31998 ай бұрын
The Etymology lesson was fascinating, but I couldn’t help fixating on the fact that you have drawn your visual aid on a piece of kitchen roll, or paper towels as we say here in the USA. Ingenious hack when faced with a lack of white paper.
@armynurseshark8 ай бұрын
I too was fixated on the paper towel used as a whiteboard
@geoffreyherrick2987 ай бұрын
Zorro was here.
@the_Kurgan7 ай бұрын
White paper is racist
@combogalis7 ай бұрын
ingenious feels like a pretty major overstatement lol
@marywenzel31997 ай бұрын
@@combogalis I was being puckish.
@IAmTheRealBill8 ай бұрын
One of the few cases wgwre the answer isn’t “cuz Britain changed to sound more continental and America said “nah we’re good”” 😂
@Candlemancer8 ай бұрын
There are actually a lot of those, but almost every single one was Noah Webster just declaring it out of nowhere because he *wanted* Americans to speak differently.
@chrismanuel97688 ай бұрын
Instead it was England changing it, America adopting the change, then England changing back, and America going "nah, we're keeping it"
@Philrc8 ай бұрын
That's never the answer
@anakinlowground55157 ай бұрын
@@Philrc you clearly don’t watch any of this British dude’s videos. It’s very often the case
@Philrc7 ай бұрын
@@anakinlowground5515 I love how people like you think you know about complete strangers and their habits. I am an "English dude" and yes i do watch his videos
@Tossphate5 ай бұрын
I always just presumed it was so the alphabet song rhymes at the end.
@BrightElk2 ай бұрын
This is kind of a relief. I tend to get teased by my fellow canadians for my Americanisms. (I’m American born living in Canada.) They claim Americans aren’t doing it right! But it turns out it was Britain’s fault all along! I can’t wait to show them this video! 😁
@rhov-anion7 ай бұрын
Again, the British wanted to be like the French and America yelled, "I'll do what I waaaaaant!"
@eumaeus7 ай бұрын
and so American's say 'erb rather than herb...
@OmniscientWarrior7 ай бұрын
@@eumaeusso did the Brits till recently. The h was always silent
@DmzirzlofxZzri7 ай бұрын
The americans got zee from west county IN england.
@vandagylon28857 ай бұрын
@@eumaeusblame the French
@TomTomicMic6 ай бұрын
The French do what they want, we get on with "almost" everyone, when the US acts French they end up Canadian!?!
@AnEnemySpy4568 ай бұрын
I've heard the alphabet song with Zed at the end. I hate it, it ends on an awkward thud.
@honolulublues55488 ай бұрын
You just have to change the ending. Instead of "Next time won't you sing with me?", say "I'm so tired, its time for bed". 😂
@eglol8 ай бұрын
Not going to lie, Zee rhyming with the others helps the song very well.
@chippyjohn18 ай бұрын
Z sounds so much better than ZEE. Zed is a gentle closing to the song, Zee makes it sound as though there is more left to the alphabet. ZEE just sounds irritating. You can pick the people of low intelligence when they pronounce it zee.
@hyalinamusic188 ай бұрын
@@chippyjohn1 Counterpoint: rhyming is always better than not rhyming, and zed rhymes with no other letter therefore zee is better
@technerd96558 ай бұрын
As a kid I only knew the song with Z[ed] at the end and it never occurred to me it didn't rhyme, so to me hearing it rhyme with Z[ee] always sounds wrong.
@aboi6145Ай бұрын
I usually thought of “zed” as short for zombie, never thought it would be how the British pronounced Z lol
@noahvanderwyst123219 күн бұрын
Zee just makes way more sense
@Steve_Stowers8 ай бұрын
To me, "Zed" sounds like the name of a hillbilly, not a letter.
@angelsdontkill1138 ай бұрын
Isn’t Zed the guy boning Ving Rhames in Pulp Fiction?
@drl50028 ай бұрын
You should hear Dougie Franklin's rant about it on the Red Green Show. I think it was on the segment "Ask the Experts".
@porkcracklins6308 ай бұрын
@@angelsdontkill113 Sorry, Zed's dead.
@balancedactguy8 ай бұрын
Zed Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies!
@martybadboy8 ай бұрын
Zeda
@joshuapurinton77527 ай бұрын
I find Zee to be more sensible as most other consonants, when spelled phonetically, can be spelled with the letter itself and the addition of one or more vowels. "Bee, Kay, Dee, eS, Que" (of course there are notable exceptions like H, X, and W) Zee just seems to fit in better where as throwing a D in "Zed" seems very abrupt and out of the ordinary.
Zed is an abrupt letter as it's the end one, that's the whole point, Zee is like it's going to continue, like a continuous annoying buzzing sound!?!
@joshuapurinton77526 ай бұрын
@@TomTomicMic "Zee" buzzes... that's the whole point of the letter, a buzzing S...
@a.nobodys.nobody5 ай бұрын
Ecks? DoubleU? Aych?
@a.nobodys.nobody5 ай бұрын
@FlyingDominion took me way too long to figure out what you were doing 😂
@ulfsark26652 ай бұрын
All I’m hearing is the Brits trolled the Americans 🤣
@fleetingimmersion8 күн бұрын
Zed was an antagonist from the power rangers if I recall. The guy with his brain out who showed up after Rita (and they worked together for a time, at least). Still the only thing I use that syllable for.
@AliceLupin17 ай бұрын
My four year old daughter heard it called “zed” one time, and now that’s how she prefers to call it 🤣🤣🤣
@ijustneedmyself7 ай бұрын
Lol! I love how kids just decide to do away with whatever they don't like regardless of the rules. It's rather entertaining.
@RainbowFlowerCrow7 ай бұрын
@@ijustneedmyselfLol, same! I'm in Canada, but my mother has an English accent, and my daughter used to say "Waugh-tuh" (water), and "to-MAH-toes" (tomatoes) until she was about 6; she was too proper for me! Lol.. When Peppa Pig came out, you'd hear all of these American and Canadian children pronouncing words as if they were English, and it was so cute!😆
@boi18257 ай бұрын
My condolences. Hope she gets better. 🙏
@kentl72287 ай бұрын
@@RainbowFlowerCrowthat's cute and she is correct. Water is pronounced as "wodder" by people in North America, to ears away from that continent. Also in North America, an orange gets pronounced as "awe rinj"... Nuclear gets the dyslexic "noo q lar". Soldering becomes "soddering"
@necksquad32227 ай бұрын
@@kentl7228Not everywhere in North America
@kuni23307 ай бұрын
I think the Dutch influence especially on place names in New York (zee -> sea) might have also contributed to Americans acceptance of the pronunciation Zee.
@TrevorJr267 ай бұрын
Source: dude just trust me
@shonuff49517 ай бұрын
That's makes absolutely no sense.. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
@xleplex70707 ай бұрын
@@TrevorJr26 “I think”
@GuineaPigEveryday6 ай бұрын
@@xleplex7070cool theory though, Dutch had a lot of influence that is quickly forgotten, hell this channel has discussed it before their influence on language. But yeah, its just a random idea
@LucTaylor2 ай бұрын
I say Zed when I'm trying to avoid saying the word "zombie"
@jacknapier82016 ай бұрын
This might be the first time I've ever heard of America actually changing it later instead of it being how it always was