As with so many other things in the English language, 'zed' came to us from the Greeks (via the French).WorKid wrote:As a kid Zed annoyed me. Even before I knew yanks called it zee I wanted to call it zee. It fits with all the other letters (it's not Bed or Ded or Ged ) and it rhymes better.
WorKid wrote:(7, 3)
Moot_Geeza wrote:Have I Got News For You audience members who groan at top drawer puns.
WorKid wrote:Add the weirdo Bath MP to the list. Reece-Mogg or something. Scary. Also almost beyond satire.
Yeah, that maybe the worst - I can't stand it any more.AJ wrote:People who write "anyway" when they mean "any way". There's another one or two similar incorrectly used compounds that annoy me, but I forget them right now.
AJ wrote:I think it might be the regularity with which I see it used in professionally-produced things that really should've been proofread.
lets hug!!!!Kow wrote:You try to enlighten people...superflyninja wrote:Its down to what is in common usage. It is common for Paris to be pronounced Paris, Nice as Neece,Chile as Chilly.How would saying Paree be weird if that were the norm? How is that any different to Chilly being the norm instead of Chilay? I dont speak a word of French. I have no idea of the correct pronunciation of Neeece. But I do know how everyone around me says it. And thats not Nice thats Neeeece. Ditto Chilleh. Im speaking English, its not my job to know how a word is pronounced in its native country.Kow wrote:No paree would be weird. You say Neece though, don't you, not Nice? My point is that sometimes people pronounce things a certain way because they don't know better.
mk64 wrote:People who rush to get on the tube..
NEWS-FUCKING-FLASH - THERE WILL BE ANOTHER ONE IN 3 MINUTES!!!
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