I blame Sesame Street, or whoever wrote that song!
Jane
On Jun 1 2006, Karen Chung wrote:
>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/
> http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/
>
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