Is the letter “Z” pronounce as zee or zed?
Why do Americans pronounce the last letter of the alphabet "zee" while the rest of the English-speaking world says "zed"?
According to Canadian word columnist Howard Richler, the Romans called this letter zeta and, over time, zed became the predominant designation in England even though other variants, such as zad, izzard and zee, cropped up in British writings well into the nineteenth century. Both zee and zed were exported to America.
The matter was finally decided in the United States when Daniel Webster wrote in his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828 that , henceforth, the letter was to be pronounced zee.
