• tegs_terry
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    6 months ago

    Good story, now back to reality, please.

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      6 months ago

      The reality is that American english pronunciation of “Zee” is globally more popular than british english “Zed”. As a descriptivist for linguistics, I believe language IS how it’s used, not how it ought to be used. So I was being over-the-top calling “Zed” a mispronunciation. But it’s just as, if not more, wrong to call “Zee” the mispronunciation too.

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        6 months ago

        A compelling argument no doubt.

        But dragonball Zed sounds better than dragonball Zee, so youre still wrong