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Old 03-17-2010, 08:21 AM   #81
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Just to make sure, you're calling them "zedbras", right? And listen to "zed zed top"?

Zee28 or Zed28
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Jesus H Christ, there are more views of this thread than my car sale thread that spawned this insanity...

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Old 03-17-2010, 09:56 AM   #83
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Zee28 or Zed28
Come to think of it, I've never even thought to call it a Zee 28. That just sounds weird now. I've always said (and heard) Zed Twenty Eight.
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Old 03-17-2010, 10:00 AM   #84
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To answer your pre-edit questions: "do the British really look like idiots when they call soccer football in NA?"
No the british and people other countries don't most of the time, some may just not know, and others may simply have forgotten at the time.
It moreso comes across as a stubborn thing for people to do. A Canadian for being a bigger soccer fan than NA football, so refusing to acknowledge NA football and constantly refer to soccer as football, initially confusing people in the process.
I don't know if it happens, but it would be like a British chap being a bigger fan of NA football over soccer and thus always refering to NA football as simply football and calling football soccer over there.
I'm Canadian and don't care much for Canadian or US "football." European football, however, is my second favourite sport and thus the one I call football. NA football should have never been called football because only 2 people on each team use their feet to play.

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Just to make sure, you're calling them "zedbras", right? And listen to "zed zed top"?
Hey, as long as "zee" speakers say "Bee(B)-oat", "Arr(R)-ed" and "Em(M)-uscle," that argument is acceptable. Otherwise, it is all arbitrary. And maybe the way, ZED is the proper pronounciation!!!
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Handegg, I like that. my favourite sport is puckstick.
I guess not every sport has to be called by the name of the instruments it's played with.

I'm not a history buff, but I've heard that it's called football because in the past it was more similar to rugby where more people use their feet and at the time soccer didn't exist (or atleast in NA).

Something I just thought about with all the zee vs zed talk. Did Canadians grow up singing the alphabet song? like "A B C D . . . Y & Z, next time won't you come and sing with me?"
I'm just wondering because I don't think the song would have been created and/or caught on as well with the z = zed. To me having it zed at the end brings it to an abrupt halt and of course no longer (or just simply doesn't) rhyme with the ending "me"
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Something I just thought about with all the zee vs zed talk. Did Canadians grow up singing the alphabet song? like "A B C D . . . Y & Z, next time won't you come and sing with me?"
I'm just wondering because I don't think the song would have been created and/or caught on as well with the z = zed. To me having it zed at the end brings it to an abrupt halt and of course no longer (or just simply doesn't) rhyme with the ending "me"
The only reason why it's "zee" in the States is because of that song.
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We did sing the song, but not the end part where you get the "zee and me" rhyme.

and we end it with zed, because the language is called "English", so you should speak and spell it the way the English do.
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