yeah if its Zed then B should be "bed" instead of "bee" and C should be "ced" instead of "cee", etc. etc.
yeah if its Zed then B should be "bed" instead of "bee" and C should be "ced" instead of "cee", etc. etc.
That Guy said: yeah if its Zed then B should be "bed" instead of "bee" and C should be "ced" instead of "cee", etc. etc. |
And yet we have letters like haich and kiuw... the letter sound does not have to agree with the rest of the alphabet.
aee
bee
see
dee
ee
ef
jee
haich
aii
jai
kai
el
em
en
ow
pee
kiuw
ar
es
tee
yoo
vee
double yoo
eks
waii
zed
The ones of similar colours are kind of grouped, but there is no pattern.
Perhaps we should just talk akin to The Two Ronnies.
F U N E X (have you any eggs)
S V F X (yes we have eggs)
F U N E M (have you any ham)
N O V F N N E M (no, we haven't any ham)
How interesting. I've never known the rest of the world said 'Zed'. I've only ever heard it as 'Zee'.
The things you learn on VGChartz, amazing
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well if you really want to follow the original greek letters, then if Zed = Zeta, then B should follow the same form as Beta, and so on and so forth.
That Guy said: well if you really want to follow the original greek letters, then if Zed = Zeta, then B should follow the same form as Beta, and so on and so forth. |
So what we're saying is that zed is right and the rest of the alphabet is fucked, right?
I remember my trip to Australia for work. I said Zee and some of them at first had clarify what i was talking about. lol. I had to learn to use Zed when talking to my Australian and UK customers.
sc94597 said:
So we should all be using zeta? Isn't that what this specific word originated as? :) Edit: Zee btw. |
Well even though I don't agree with his sentiment you're still wrong. We aren't speaking Greek, we're speaking English. The English use 'zed'.
That Guy said: well if you really want to follow the original greek letters, then if Zed = Zeta, then B should follow the same form as Beta, and so on and so forth. |
Yea, it's already been said but we're speaking English, not Greek.
That Guy said: well if you really want to follow the original greek letters, then if Zed = Zeta, then B should follow the same form as Beta, and so on and so forth. |
Well ignoring the other replies about it being English, not Greek. Here is the Greek Alphabet to prove that silly rules like that don't make sense anyway.
English spelling of Greek letter | Greek Letter | ||
Alpha | α | A | aee |
Beta | β | B | bee |
Gamma | γ | Y | waii |
Delta | δ | D | dee |
Epsilon | ε | E | ee |
Zeta | ζ | Z | zed |
Eta | η | H | haich |
Theta | θ | ??? | probably the letter for the "th" sound |
Iota | ι | I | aii |
Kappa | κ | K | kai |
Lambda | λ | L | el |
mu | μ | M | em |
nu | ν | N | en |
xi | ξ | ??? | suspected letter "C"? |
omicron | ο | O | ow |
pi | π | P | pee |
rho | ρ | R | ar |
sigma | σ | S | es |
tau | τ | T | tee |
upsilon | υ | U | yu |
phi | φ | ??? | perhaps "F" |
chi | χ | X | eks |
psi | ψ | ??? | unknown, probably seperate sound |
omega | ω | W | double yu |
missing in English "G" and "J" (coincidence that these two letters are similar in English?) |
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