{"id":37793,"date":"2017-03-31T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37793"},"modified":"2017-03-21T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T21:16:43","slug":"why-do-some-english-speaking-countries-pronounce-z-as-zed-and-others-as-zee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/why-do-some-english-speaking-countries-pronounce-z-as-zed-and-others-as-zee\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Some English Speaking Countries Pronounce Z as &#8220;Zed&#8221; and Others as &#8220;Zee&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0JTATv3mW1U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 19 Mar 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the British that pronounce \u201cz\u201d as \u201czed\u201d. The vast majority of the English speaking world does this. The primary exception, of course, is in the United States where \u201cz\u201d is pronounced \u201czee\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 19 Mar 2017 It\u2019s not just the British that pronounce \u201cz\u201d as \u201czed\u201d. The vast majority of the English speaking world does this. The primary exception, of course, is in the United States where \u201cz\u201d is pronounced \u201czee\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,4,6,13],"tags":[400,301],"class_list":["post-37793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-britain","category-cancon","category-usa","tag-language","tag-newzealand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37794,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37793\/revisions\/37794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}