Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>Zeds are over-rated. Zees sound like cees (especially the way
>>Americans
>>say them... I could understand a British-style dialect distinguishing
>>Zee and Cee happily, but Americans?[1]) and should join the queue: sea
>>and see are already there.
>>
>>[1]: You mightn't realise it, but either you use less /z/s than we do,
>>our you make your /z/ differently from us, so it has the affect of
>>making it look like the distinction between /z/ and /s/ isn't as
>>strong
>>as it could be.
>>
>>
>
>I do hope you're not thinking that I'm American?
>
Of course not! The footnote was directed at any Americans who were
reading it. The paragraph it was attached to was directed to anyone. But
I've probably shown my Australian bias in interpreting -ize as an
American spelling. Bad me!
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Tristan <kesuari@...>