Posted by Robert Thompson on December 16, 2006 at 14:42:24 from 80.177.174.120 user robert.
In Reply to: Re: ZEE or ZED? posted by Eric Abraham on December 16, 2006 at 14:28:43:
Not "Zed", nor "Zebra", but "Zulu". The US forces alphabet was replaced in the 1950s by the NATO alphabet. Ed will be delighted to see that it's Y for Yankee.
Ed, the word "zebra" is pronounced in both ways in the UK, ie Zebra (short e) and zeebra (long e)