I don’t know about that. Thais largely couldn’t care less what happens outside their immediate borders and are amazingly unknowledgeable and incurious about even their closest neighbors. I’ve found this to be true in many other Southeast Asian nations too.
Now I’m more confused than the last thread. Are you all saying that the English need to add more letters to the letter ‘Z’ to pronounce the letter ‘Z’. ?
I though ‘Zed’ was something akin to military communications protocol, a form of disambiguation for the sake of clarity. For instance, instead of using the letters “ABCD … Z” in a radio call to spell out a word, you would use the words "Able Baker Charlie Dog … Zed. "
So my ignorance is greater than I thought. I had not idea that English people would say, “ABCD … Zed”, that ‘Zed’ was in fact the normal pronunciation of the letter Z
BTW, how do they spell “Zed”? " Z E D"? “Zed E D”?
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Yes, if you pronounce the letter “z” as “zed” you would pronounce the spelling as “zed ee dee.” I don’t know why this is so surprising.
And what’s weird about pronouncing “z” as “zed”? I mean, we pronounce the letter “W” as “Double U” instead of, say, “wee” or something simple and logical like that.
You are confusing the symbol representing the letter with the name of that symbol.
It makes a lot more sense if you consider that your series should go “A bee cee dee e ef gee aitch … zed.” And the spelling of zed would go “zed e dee”.
What’s really ugly is how many syllables it takes to pronounce “W.” Three doggone syllables. Messy. There was a story about a guy with a mark on his forehead. The author (and other characters in the story) called him “The little guy with the pimple.” After a few repetitions, the author had the other characters say “TLGWTP” for short. But it isn’t! It takes the same number of syllables.
A friend of mine calls “W” “Wubba.” Well, he’s shaving off one syllable, anyway. “Wee” would be just that much better.
Back in high school in Texas, I was ridiculed – by adults – for pronouncing W “double U.” It’s been Dubya ever since regardless of Bush.
I personally pronounce it closer to something like “dubba-you” in casual speech, but still three syllables for a single letter.
Hence the riddle “What common abbreviation has three times as many syllables as the full version of the name?”
WWW - world wide web