{"id":47165,"date":"2026-08-23T21:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47165"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:21:46","slug":"why-do-canadians-call-the-last-letter-of-the-alphabet-zed-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47165","title":{"rendered":"Why do Canadians call the last letter of the alphabet zed? | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/8fb1fc5b-908c-40d5-9ccc-374afbf3b214,1787337064485\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D1179\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:289px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Few things distinguish us from our neighbours to the south more quickly than calling the last letter of the alphabet zed instead of zee, but why do we do it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/zed-explained-canadians-9.7315717\">Why do Canadians call the last letter of the alphabet zed? | CBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: from the French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Why do Canadians call the last letter of the alphabet zed?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,2297,57],"class_list":["post-47165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-french","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47170,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47165\/revisions\/47170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}