OK, listen up rest of the English speaking world!

[9-10ths_Penguin]

And it is not "anyways" it is "anyway" and you don't go on "holidays" you go on "holiday".

This is one case where I agree with the Americans. A holiday is either a day for religious observance or a day when stores and offices are closed. You wouldn't say that you're "going on weekend" or "going on Easter", would you?

You don't "go on" holiday. You celebrate a holiday; you go on vacation.

 

[Panda]

Hey, I'll say haitch if I damn well please! Take it up with my Irish Roman Catholic grandpa and grandma, if you don't like it.

People who say haitch is one of my pet peeves. It makes me want to smash a large brick over their head. Also it is idea not ideer!

 

[rojse]

Um is not a word, in spite of its constant use.

 

[Smoke]

It is zee, not zed.

I think zed is preferable, and also less likely to be confused with cee. However, I say zee because (a) it seems ridiculously pretentious for somebody with my accent to adopt Britishisms and (b) at least half the people I deal with on a daily basis wouldn't have any idea what I meant by zed.

And for the record, American use of quotation marks is just plain stupid in every way. I generally follow the American practice, but I consider it annoying and wrong.

 

[Smoke]

Actually Blaise, I was quite shocked to discover that irregardless is considered a real word, though I would not suggest that people use the term.

It may be a real word, but it's a stupid word, and far less useful than ain't, which is unfairly sneered at by far too many people.

BTW, inflammable is a real word, too, and makes far more sense than irregardless, but it's best not to use it because there are always going to be people who think it means the opposite of flammable, and we should not encourage stupid people to set themselves on fire unless they are Republicans.

 

[JMorris]

and we should not encourage stupid people to set themselves on fire unless they are Republicans.

1.) we shouldnt?
2.) if we did, wouldnt that pretty much wipe out the entire party? i think its worth the cost

 

[Nepenthe]

It's not like the use of zee is a recent phenomena anyway; it's been in practice since Lye's New Spelling Book listed it in 1677- the zee pronunciation actually originated in Great Britian not the U.S.
I lean towards Kent's opinion in King Lear: "Thou whoreson Zed, thou unneccessary letter!"
Adding a Shakespeare quote to a post automatically makes it more convincing- kinda like quoting Einstein.

Anyway, I think I'll pronounce it zad.

 

[Smoke]

This is one case where I agree with the Americans. A holiday is either a day for religious observance or a day when stores and offices are closed. You wouldn't say that you're "going on weekend" or "going on Easter", would you?

You don't "go on" holiday. You celebrate a holiday; you go on vacation.

In parts of the American South, if you are on vacation, you are vacating. Which, with reference to your usual abode, is literally true.

 

[Smoke]

1.) we shouldnt?
2.) if we did, wouldnt that pretty much wipe out the entire party? i think its worth the cost

It is a mistake to think that all Republicans are stupid. Many of them are merely profiting by the stupidity of others.

 

[JMorris]

It is a mistake to think that all Republicans are stupid. Many of them are merely profiting by the stupidity of others.

which would be the base (the stupids), and if they all lit themselves aflame, who would these opportunists have left to profit off of? still sounds like a good idea to me.........

 

[monta]

Another reason Irish is a far more civil language, no controversial letters, no , J, K, Q, V, X, Y, or Z , makes life so much easier.

That being said, the letter is zed, sure the muppets on the US version of Sesame Street say zee, but are you a muppet? :sarcastic

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Zee is a letter.

Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead.

 

[Mr Cheese]

But the English invented English. They say it's ZED, and not only that but ALUMINIUM. And neighbour. And cheque. And it's a QUEUE, not a line. And HARMONISE not harmonize.

and HERB

we're not french...we don't say ERB

 

[Mr Cheese]

Look its ZED ok,just as Lieutenant is pronounced Leftenant because it makes sense

Yeah and Salisbury (steak) is pronounced Sauls-bury
and

Worcester (sauce) is pronounced Wuster

because it also makes sense

and gloucestishire is pronounced glost-er-shire

because if you have a problem, go eat some eccles cakes with spotted dick sauce (custard) on it...

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

In parts of the American South, if you are on vacation, you are vacating. Which, with reference to your usual abode, is literally true.

While "vacating", it grates on my eardrums when I hear the flight attendant say that we can "debark".

However, that's not as bad as what I heard recently on the local commuter rail service: the conductor announced that due to platform construction, if we wanted to get off at the next station, we should move to one of the first four cars to "de-train".

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Yeah and Salisbury (steak) is pronounced Sauls-bury
and

Worcester (sauce) is pronounced Wuster

because it also makes sense

and gloucestishire is pronounced glost-er-shire

And Strachan is pronounced "strong", and "Featherstonehaugh" is "fanshaw"... despite what the Americans might say.

 

[monta]

and HERB

we're not french...we don't say ERB

herb (ûrb, hûrb) n. 1. A plant whose stem does not produce woody, persistent tissue and generally dies back at the end of each growing season.
2. Any of various often aromatic plants used especially in medicine or as seasoning.
3. Slang Marijuana.

some of us do

 

[darkendless]

It is zee, not zed.

Come on Canadians, Australians and English speaking Europeans, say it with me..."zee".

Dude you're amercan, you can't even used STI units or spell cheque properly, so why the hell would i wan't to pronounce things like you too
America is not the baseline for proper english Thank invisible dude with white beard for that.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Dude you're amercan, you can't even used STI units or spell cheque properly, so why the hell would i wan't to pronounce things like you too

I think that if the Americans could force me to use kips, slugs and poundals while I was in school, we should be able to force them to call the letter z "zed". It's only fair.

However, I'm pretty sure that whoever the numpty was who decided to use the same unit for force and mass in the first place, he was British. We'll have to figure out some sort of suitable revenge on them as well.

 

[darkendless]

I think that if the Americans could force me to use kips, slugs and poundals while I was in school, we should be able to force them to call the letter z "zed". It's only fair.

However, I'm pretty sure that whoever the numpty was who decided to use the same unit for force and mass in the first place, he was British. We'll have to figure out some sort of suitable revenge on them as well.

The worst for us was feet/second or cubic feet per second for hydraulics. Conversions from Americanism to SI is painful. Why are they so arrogant and won't change to what the rest of the world has?

The one thing i have against the Germans is the Mohr circle of stress, that circle will be the death of me. Force and mass isn't too bad, perhaps a flaming bag of poo for the British, a blown up letter-box for the germans, and a hydrogen bomb fo the Americans?