• modern_drift@lemmy.world
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    8 小时前

    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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      38 分钟前

      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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        13 分钟前

        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.