Americans used to pronounce Z the same as the rest of the world until someone wrote the ABC song and decided it needed to rhyme with V, and then an entire generation grew up saying it wrong and it stuck. At least that is what I’ve heard in Canada.
It’s also why there is a Canadian version of Sesame street where the last verse doesnt rhyme because up until the late 90s our TV censors used to straight up nope things that would cause kids to be confused about how things should be pronounced.
doesn’t rhyme in murican
in murican it sounds like how a French person would pronounce “the shed”
Is that with a silent “D”? I know the French like to drop the end sounds of words… “Zee She”
You aen’ zee She, you ahre nòthan
Honhonhonhonhon
“Zee shed”
but it does sound like a german bond villain
After coming here I can’t tell how to say g and z differently. Why are they doing this :(
They had perfectly different sounds.
Americans used to pronounce Z the same as the rest of the world until someone wrote the ABC song and decided it needed to rhyme with V, and then an entire generation grew up saying it wrong and it stuck. At least that is what I’ve heard in Canada.
It’s also why there is a Canadian version of Sesame street where the last verse doesnt rhyme because up until the late 90s our TV censors used to straight up nope things that would cause kids to be confused about how things should be pronounced.