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词汇 zee
释义 zee
noun[ C ]
USuk /ziː/ us /ziː/
the last letter of the English alphabet; Z: 字母Z(英文字母表中的最后一个字母)
As far as "zee vs. zed" goes, we Canadians still say "zed." 至于字母Z读作“zee”还是“zed”,我们加拿大人还是说“zed”。
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Tianna defiantly pronounces the last letter of the alphabet in the American fashion, "zee."
It was left to a DJ guest to point out quietly that Jay Z, the rapper that he was talking about, was pronounced "zee" not "zed".
"We are looking forward to the fact that she can spell 'colour' with a 'u' and we do not have to say 'zee' any more," said Robin Kent, a British expatriate who is moving his eight-year-old daughter Grace from an American school.
The name of the letter Z is pronounced zed in British English as opposed to zee in American English, though the words are normally only spelled out when noting the difference.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Letters of alphabets
aitch
alphabet
alphabetic
alphabetical
alphabetically
alphabetization
alphanumeric
alphanumerically
B, b
I, i
iota
J, j
K, k
kappa
psi
Q, q
rho
S, s
sigma
zeta

Examples of zee


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Generally, the absent "zee" -rhyme is not missed, although some children use a "zee" pronunciation in the rhyme which they would not use elsewhere.
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The commonest call is a nasal "zee, zee, zee", but the notes of the bird evidently vary considerably.
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This bird's song is a buzzy "tik tuk zee", resembling the sound made by a grasshopper.
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The song of the male bird is a buzzed "zee-zee-zee-bzz-zee", somewhat similar to that of its eastern relative, the black-throated green warbler.
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In 1991, when those twelve-year-olds were twenty-five, another survey showed that 39 percent of twenty to twenty-five year olds said "zee".
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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