Olya Frenska wrote:
> Why do Americans say /zi:/ insetad of /zed/?
We Americans wonder why the Brits and Canadians and others say /zEd/
instead of /zi/! There is no other letter ending with /-Ed/, but I count
eight others that rhyme with /zi/. To me as an American, /zi/ fits in
much better with the overall pattern!
Karen Chung
Taipei
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/
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