Why he isn't named agent z?
Why doesn't Zed go by Agent Z?
Zed is how non americans say z. And if you say agent z fast it sounds like agency, so that could be the reason too.
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How is that? Z is a letter, not a word that can be spelled differently and pronounced the same. Hmm
You have it backwards. It's not that they're spelled differently and pronounced the same. The letter looks the same wherever you are but are called different things. How do you think the letters got to be called what they're called? Because people gave them names. Think about it. The Greek alphabet is alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, etc. In non-American English-speaking countries, the letter is called "zed." My guess is like everything else, we Americans decided to change it (most likely because it went with the other letters better). Just like in the US we call them cookies but in England they call them biscuits, or how in the US we call them sweatshirts but in Australia they're called jumpers.
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Having lived in Nigeria for over a year, I can definitely confirm they do NOT say "z". They will (including all the children I taught) pronounce Z as "zed".
shareBiscuits and cookies are two different things - we have cookies in England, we don't call them anything else.
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