• str82L @lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Would you also like us to say aee, fee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, oee, qee, ree, see, uee, wee, xee and yee?

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      22 hours ago

      Are those letters that make the same “ee” sound when you pronounce the letter on its own? Like every one that I listed.

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        14 hours ago

        I’m suggesting that if you take your logic and apply it to all the letters equally, you’ll end up with the changes I listed. If that seems wrong, then the case for consistency isn’t as strong as you first suggested.

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          14 hours ago

          I understood what you were suggesting, it was just weak.

          Americans say “zee”, which is comparable to the letters I gave as examples.

          between zee and zed, zee makes more sense with it being inline with other letter’s pronunciations. What does zed come from?

          Admittedly, I do not know the history of the character’s development.