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It's superfluous in many cases. Plus you would THINK the English would resent any evidence of French influence on their language and yet, U central.

And indeed, Z is really cool. Why wouldn't you use Z in any context you can?

The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'

The U thing comes from that ol' Puritan heritage. All the Christian groups coming over to get away from the Anglicans thought those Us were frivolous luxuries best discarded. Actually I hear the dictionary makers just decided they were dumb and could safely be cut.

And on the letter Z, those silly old Brits turned the letter into a whole word I mean, my goodness, "zed" sounds terribly awkward, or at least like a villain from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

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Basically, the thing you need to understand about the way Americans spell things is that This Guy basically decided how everything would be spelled.

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There are already B, C, D, E, G, P, T and V to fill your need of "Letters That Are Almost Indistinguishable From Each Other In A Noisy Area". Making "zed" into "zee" just adds another one! Did America learn nothing from trying to tell whether something is spelt with M or N in a noisy room?

But English children have an Alphabet Song that doesn't rhyme unless they put in an awkward aside about going to be or something! Why do you want children to suffer?

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"

What, do not-Yanks just use the NATO alphabet in casual conversation?

"Now I know my alpha bravo charlies, next time won't you sing with mes?"

edited 18th Sep '14 6:59:35 PM by rikalous

The fact that all those letters rhyme just makes it even more of a no-brainer. I mean, "zed" is horribly awkward. Also, French.

The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'

I'm talking about zed, at the very end.

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"

I propose we rename the alphabet to make all the letters rhyme.

I think what we really need to do is make "C" the symbol for the "CH" sound. As it is, it's redundant with either K or S.

That would be like going through life pronouncing everything like ecclesiastical Latin. Or Italian I guess.

The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'

I mean, sure, we'd need to edit the spelling of virtually every word in the English language, and it'd take a few years to get over the way everything looks like it was written by an Ork, but I think it would greatly improve the clarity of the language.

For my next trick, I will fail at learning Lojban because I suck at learning other languages.

@Mousa: No, in some places it's 1,000,000,000 and others 1,000,000,000,000. Long scale and short scale. Or some other names like "long count" or something, I forget.

Also, it's not that they disliked u, they just didn't really like "our" in words where it was pronounced "or" since the former is a different sound in words like hour or, well, our. Or just thought it was unnecessary as opposed to another idiosincracy. Zed sounds cooler than zee, I prefer "-ising" to "-izing", and a lot of the differences between various countries' versions of English make (as much) sense either way.

Finally, I feel really bad about considering it, but I think I have to disable ads on this site. It is just too slow with them.

Mostly does better things now. Key word mostly. Writes things, but you'll never find them. Or you can ask.

I tend to alternate between "I should have ads enabled to provide money to the wiki" and "I am really, really tired of these ads asking if I want to have an affair with a married woman, or showing me the Cleavage Lich of D&D Online".

@Raichu, you just showed me a billion followed by a trillion. That's how the order works, billion is the next three zeroes after million.

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Yeah, the ads are terrible, but my point is that they are literally impeding my computer's ability to load pages on this site. I can ignore the occasional tastelessness of them, but this is rather worse.

If someone knows a way to just block video ads in Chrome without affecting the other ones, (that would play nice with Adblock Plus or could be set to only function on a few sites) I would love to hear it; that'd be so much better.

I can selectively block ads on a page with Adblock Plus, except that to do that I have to turn it on on that page, and it automatically blocks everything it considers an "ad" there, so if someone has a way to stop it from doing that, I'd be much obliged. For now, though, I'm turning them all off.

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Excuse the double post, but Mousa, listen to the words I'm saying. Even though I'm typing them and you're percieving them with your eyes.

You're just only aware of the short scale; the long scale is a thing that exists. Here, take a gander.

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Oh god, numbers were always supposed to be simple! Now I'm going to be up all night trying to make sure I understand this.

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On the topic of ad blocking- I have it enabled on my laptop. but my mobile browser doesn't have an Adblock option. So, since I use my phone most of the time, I figure it's ok to block ads when I can.

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I still remember when the Alphabet ended and per se and.

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I've got ad block enabled, mostly because they're never effective anyway.

Despite my screen-name, ranting to you about One Piece is not my top priority.

Have you tried switching browsers, just for Tvtropes? It's the only thing I use Safari for now and the ads haven't given me the trouble they did in Firefox.

I hate using multiple browsers, and I like Chrome too much.

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Ditto

Despite my screen-name, ranting to you about One Piece is not my top priority.