I would ask “why did you left ponders choose to change the pronunciation to zee?” - though given many USAian pronunciations are, apparently, closer to Elizabethan English than the current UK sounds I wouldn’t like to guess which came first the zed or the zee…
Additional question…
Who decided to include the letter D in the pronunciation of the letter Z?
Zed?
Where did that come from? We don’t say it that way over here in the states, we just say zee…
I would ask “why did you left ponders choose to change the pronunciation to zee?” - though given many USAian pronunciations are, apparently, closer to Elizabethan English than the current UK sounds I wouldn’t like to guess which came first the zed or the zee…
Probably because D has absolutely nothing to do with Z.