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That Guy said:
de-facto means most commonly used.

HD-DVD may have come first, but Blu Ray came along and was more commonly used, so now its the de-facto standard in the english language =))))

Likewise, zed may have come first, but now there are more zee speakers

I cannot speak for other languages, so if its pronounced Zed in dutch or french or whatever, then more power to you!

You ignored my page showing there are more English speakers outside of America than in America didn't you?

Also you're misusing de-facto, de-facto basically means 'in practice' which would imply that everybody uses one version even if another version is theoritically correct.