Of all of the differences between life in Australia and life in the United States, nothing has been a startling as learning that the letter Z is pronounced "Zed" not "zee." I mean, I can handle going clockwise through a rotary, but Zed?!! That's messed up.
In somewhat related news, an ATM ate my bank card on Friday night, which I use to pay for my fancy internet dongle, so posting might be a little scarce over the next few days until my new card arrives and I can recharge the dongle (DIRTY!). I guess I've been a bit of a slacker about blogging lately, but no worries, I'll get back on the ole bloghorse soon enough. My bank is ANZ, and until I figured out the whole Z=Zed thing I had no idea what people were saying when they said my bank's name.
5 comments:
'Zed' sounds like the diminutive of some biblical name, perhaps Zedediah.
First of all, you lived in Massachusetts so don't pretend you've never seen someone going clockwise through a rotary. Secondly, as an American you are required to impose American values and American culture where ever you go. None of this "zed" crap.
Zed's dead baby, zed's dead.
Ha! It took you 2 months in Oz to learn the alphabet? I fully support your newly bestowed mission to get those Aussies to pronounce it the proper way. I'm doing my bit here in the UK. I could be nerdy and tell you the factual reason why zee is correct rather than zed, but I won't bore you here!
You might pause to consider that the zee is actually the perversion of the original zed from blighty ;- P
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