April 30, 2014
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Z is for Zinnias & the letter ZED or is it ZEE?
WELL FELLOW BLOGGERS IF YOU ARE READING THIS YOU KNOW WE HAVE REACHED THE END!
I bet we have all had some fun with our letters, here is abit more…
- Canadians and the British pronounce the letter Z, they pronounce it "zed" instead of "zee," as Americans say it. Why is there a difference between the pronunciations?
"The nutshell story of zed? Zed entered Middle English from French representing a “ts” or “ds” sound, then came to represent the voiced sibilant in, for example, the word zoo.
Because it entered French from Latin as zeta, it became zède in modern French, zeta in modern Spanish and Italian, and zed in English."
http://www.billcasselman.com/cwod_archiv...
- What about Scrabble? I mean, I count on that Z and those 10 points on a triple word score square.
- What about ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ to indicate sleeping?
- An April Fool’s joke that Z would be removed from the alphabet
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-letter-z-will-be-removed-from-the-english-alphabet/
- Zinnias are annual flowering plants that belong to the family Asteraceae. Easy to grow and reliable, zinnias are bright butterfly magnets.
Plant zinnias! A packet of seeds will fill an area with gorgeous flowers in an amazing array of shapes and colors -- even green!
Good video below on growing zinnias...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uTPFhQWZ2E
Comments (2)
Hahaha --- whatever would we do without a Z, however it's pronounced?!
Loved reading your Z's! I didn't know the background to the pronunciation of /zee/zed/
Interesting! Congratulations on finishing A-to-Z !
Mary from The View from my World
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