In the dialects spoken in most English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, the letter name for Z is pronounced /zɛd/ (Zed); although in American English, the dialect in mind by the composer, the letter is more commonly pronounced /ziː/ (Zee). In dialects which use the Zed pronunciation, the absent Zee-rhyme is generally not ZEE meaning: 1. the last letter of the English alphabet; Z: 2. the last letter of the English alphabet; Z: . Learn more. When saying “Z for Zebra” we usually some of us say “Zee”. And with “NZ” we usually we almost always say “En Zed”. Edit: turns out there's a lot of zeds in this thread! Dragon! Dragon! Rock the dragon! Dragonball Zed! Zeds dead baby, zeds dead. So how do people say the letter “H” then. Yeah, Americans are mostly the only people that say "zee" but it's still "proper English" in the American "dialect." It's just a dialectal difference—to say that one is more proper than the other is just plain wrong. By that logic 331.9 million people speak "improper" English because we say "zee" instead of "zed." Do you say Zee or zed? Zee is the American way of saying the letter z. Zed is the British way. Neither is right or wrong, and nobody is ignorant for pronouncing z the way they do. The zed pronunciation is older, and it more closely resembles the Greek letter, zeta, from which the English letter is derived. Currently there are two different ways of pronouncing it: Zed and Zee.In the UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and India it is pronounced "Zed"In the USA it is pronounced "Zee". Zed is older than zee, dating back to at least the 15 th Century. But the letter ‘z’ has had other names, including ‘zad’, ‘ezod’ and ‘uzzard’. Noah Webster seems to have decided on ‘zee’ for American English use. One exception to this is on ham radio, where they use ‘zed’ according to one blog reader. There may also be Everybody else (English-language speakers like the Brits, Aussies and Kiwis) pronounces it "zed". Other languages also pronounce "z" as something close to "zed". Zee is just the Americanized way, like leaving out the "u" in words like colour and behaviour. O791Fa.