英语词汇zed的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	zed
词源	zed. During World War II, American and Canadian men evading the draft often blended in on opposite sides of the bor- der. However, immigration agents from both countries found one way to tell where they came from, even though they gener- ally looked, dressed, and talked alike. Agents made the suspects recite the alphabet, because Americans had been taught to re- cite the last letter of the alphabet as “zee,” while Canadians had learned to say “zed.” See z.
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