Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking

• BenM2023@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • BenM2023@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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…

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Probably because D has absolutely nothing to do with Z.

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