I work with a French Canadian living in Montreal, I think it is, who says "zed". I flinch a little each time; I keep thinking I'll get used to it, but so far it keeps catching me by surprise.
We're both mainframers so it's "zed oh ess" this and "zed secure" that and by now you'd think I'd have adjusted. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Hi. I'm probably home, I'm just avoiding someone I don't like. Leave me a message, and if I don't call back, it's you. -voicemail greeting */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 17:00 I was giving a talk to some of our guys in Phoenix about REXX. About an hour into my talk, one of the guys said, "excuse me, what is 'zed'' ". Oops "zee". Always amazed how US English strayed from the home origins. In the North of England we always said zebbra not zeebra. Sarf and Norf are completely different. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
