‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

  • HorseChandelier@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Yeh cheese as cheeze is an odd one - especially considering the z is “zed” not “zee”… I guess cheese is where the idea of “zee” came from?

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      6 days ago

      Additional question…

      Who decided to include the letter D in the pronunciation of the letter Z?

      Zed?

      Where did that come from? We don’t say it that way over here in the states, we just say zee…

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        6 days ago

        I would ask “why did you left ponders choose to change the pronunciation to zee?” - though given many USAian pronunciations are, apparently, closer to Elizabethan English than the current UK sounds I wouldn’t like to guess which came first the zed or the zee…