Spelling over adverse voice transmission is best dealt with by using the NATO phonetic alphabet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 5:18 PM Jay Maynard <jaymayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've always pronounced my ham callsign kay five zed see ...but I use "zee" > elsewhere. "Zed" works better under marginal conditions. > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 4:00 PM Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 07:35 Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > In English the letter 'z' is a voiced 's'. > > > > > > I believe the Italians pronounce it 'ts' like the Germans. > > > > > > --- > > > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > > > > > /* If you're going to walk on thin ice, you may as well dance. */ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > > > Of Bernd Oppolzer > > > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 16:10 > > > > > > not exactly "six" ... more like "tsix", the first letter sounds like a Z > > > in Germany, a letter T followed by a letter S. > > > > > > It comes to my mind that most other languages don't pronounce the letter > > Z > > > this way, only we Germans do ... the other (like French and English) > > simply > > > say S. > > > For example zebra. How do you pronounce it? The word is the same in all > > > three languages, I guess ... > > > We say t-s-ebra. > > > > > > --- Am 17.03.2023 um 20:36 schrieb René Jansen: > > > > I’ve heard Germans say ‘six’; in Dutch we say ‘kicks’ like the Brits. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Jay Maynard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
