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I got an email from a listener today. We were talking on the show about American pronunciations being used in the UK too often these days.

Her email read:

Hi Steve,

Here's one for you. My son who's at school was being taught the alphabet, and he was taught the letter Zee, not Zed.


I know. I was outraged too. What's wrong with zed? It's a good letter, a proud letter. The kind of letter that won us the war.

Sure, we don't use it a lot, but that doesn't mean we don't hold it warmly in out hearts.

We don't use it in words like "categorise" and "specialise", and we don't even use it in the word "xylophone", but we save it for Sunday Best.

We love you Z!