British pronounce it zed only because the French pronounce it zed. About to leave this comment and realized this discussion is 9 years old. I just paused Stargate Atlantis to find the answer to this question. Anyway I prefer ZPM because I would use the first letter of each word Zero Point Module. ️. The Teacher. The Man Known As "The Teacher" is the creator of - administrator for - and sole content contributor to - all that is GiveMeSomeEnglish!!!, as well as a being a TEFL certified English teacher A Master of Ninja Invisibility and Jedi Mind Tricks, AND has a secret under-ground UFO bunker and Mad Scientist's Laboratory hidden deep in The Balkans where he currently resides with his I learned it to end with zee as per the American way, but then people here use zed pretty interchangeably with zee too. Interesting aside: Irish people pronounce H with a hard H at the start, so think the word Hay with tch at the end Haytch, not 'Aytch. Also, many Irish people pronounce A as ah rather than ay. Americans prefer to pronounce the letter /Z/ 'zee', whereas, 'British speakers tend to pronounce it 'zed'. Look at the different spellings of 'zebra' by American and English speakers: American speakers: Z ( zee ) - E - B - R - A Anyone in the UK calling it the "Zee 7" will be looked at as if they were a bit weird, just as anyone in the US calling it the "Zed 7" would, so pronounciation will follow local norms. AlanWatson's gear list: Nikon Z7 II Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm F1.8G Nikon AP-F 70-300mm F4.5-5.6E Nikon Z 14-30mm F4 Nikon Z 24-200mm F4-6.3 VR +1 more. Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its usual names in English are zed (pronounced ) and zee , with an occasional archaic variant izzard . The 26th letter of the modern English alphabet. The letter z. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter z. Am Canadian. We say "zed", most of the time. Some of us say "zee" on occasion, due to the influence of American media. I had a physics teacher who would say "Zed, or zee, depending on what channel you watched Sesame Street". But "zed" is the pronunciation that comes from the Greek "zeta". In French it is always "zed". So to repeat, it doesn't matter whether you say "Zed" or "Zee" it has no bearing on how the Z sounds in a word. It's the letters (vowels) after that determine the sound. For the record, British people pronounce "Zebra", "Z-air-bra". Americans say "Z-ee-bra". But this has got nothing to do with how we say the actual letter. It's just Pronunciation ~ Z ~ Zed Or ZeeEnglish Pronunciation = ZEDAmerican Pronunciation = ZEEZ (named zed /ˈzɛd/ or zee /ˈziː/,[1] forms/script: Z z Z z) is the t gnorrn • 7 yr. ago. Why pronounce Z as Zee instead of Zed? By analogy with B, C, D, G, P, and T (and possibly V, although I'm not sure which of "zee" or "vee" is earlier). Note that in Latin B, C, D, G, P, T were all stops, and this pattern of naming was distinctive to stops (compare F, L, M, N, S, which follow a different pattern for non DxLAen.