Zed

[Lanell]

The way Canadians, British, Australians, and any other English-speaking country aside from the United States pronounce the final letter of the alphabet: Z. The American pronounciation Zee is derived from a now commonly obsolete late [17th century English] dialect. The pronounciation Zed is [ratified] by the French Zède, the Spanish and Italian Zeta, and the Dutch [Zet], to name a few.