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Have you replaced any British words with their American versions? (self.askuk)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Oneeightnine to c/askuk

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For example, switching out the word 'boot' for 'trunk', or ditching the word 'rubbish' for 'garbage'.

This is something I've noticed my 6 year old does pretty regularly. We went through a stage where 'sweets' became 'candy', 'holiday' became 'vacation' and 'courgette' became 'zucchini'.

That last one didn't happen but if you're still reading you've got my respect, or as the Americans might say '...mad props'.

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[–] GiveOver 31 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I said "gen zed" the other day and everybody frowned and said "Don't you mean gen zee?". NO I FUCKING DON'T. Still fighting the good fight in pronouncing schedule with a soft sh but I think I'm in a small minority these days. I've given up trying to call it an aubergine emoji, we may as well accept it's an eggplant now 🍆

[–] hushable@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

English is my second language and I despise zee, it gets confused with cee. Zed is objectively superior

[–] Patch 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You know, I don't think I've ever heard an American say "Gen Z" before, and it literally never occured to me that they were pronouncing it "Gen Zee". Obvious now you mention it, but I've just been assuming that every time I see it written down it's "Gen Zed" by default.

[–] GiveOver 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My friends were the opposite, they accepted that Z is pronounced Zed, but they said that gen zee was different, because "it's like ZZ Top". I argued back that it's not like ZZ Top, it's just a letter assigned to a generation. They were so used to hearing it said by Americans on TikTok, they refused to even accept that a normal person would say gen zed. "It's just gen zee though! Nobody says gen zed!". I'm angry again thinking about it!

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Lol zed zed top

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

I used to call him this.

Boy did I get the puss taken out of me

[–] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

I have never heard that said out loud so to me it's zed zed top.

Lay-zed-boy make beds and apparently Dragonball Zed is wrong too?

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

I'd argue it's a proper noun which happens to be a letter long rather than a letter assigned to a generation

That said I believe the correct term is Zoomer which resolves this issue

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Expat in the US. I met a guy called "Z" the other day - I didn't want to be a cunt and pronounce his name wrong, so I went along with it.

I do pronounce Aaron correctly and not call them "Erin" though.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah it really isn't hard to double up on the a sound.

Aaron

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Schedule, yes! We're very much in the minority on that one, but I'll keep on using it the right way, even if it doesn't seem to make sense when looking at other words like school.

[–] blackn1ght 1 points 7 months ago

It's never occurred to me it could be pronounced "gen zee".