Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for June 17, 2024

Ahem! I think you’ll find that it’s more a case of Someone decided to replace S with Z!

Zorro.

OK, so today I’m going to the soo to see the sebras and sebus, the sebra finch and the sebra spitting cobra. Then I’m going to cross the road at the school sone. I’m going to do some online shopping with amason and then I’ll have dinner with a side of succhini before watching a movie, Sorba The Greek. Zo there.

Theme song from the 60’s TV show.

Pizza.

Z sounds nothing like C, no matter what the Americans say. Change my mind.

Then, when I sleep I’d sound like a snake!

Read the comic again and see the pun.

I’m not sure about replacing the “Z” with the “S”, but we can replace the letter “C” by using an “S” or a “K”, in the right sirkumstanses.

Z game is afoot, Watson.

By John Sakour & Zcott Robertz…

He’s doing it backwards; replacing “s” with “z”

Podcast clickbait; with MMM banner ads I’m sure.

I read a humorous essay years ago lamenting the problems with English: silent letters, letters that aren’t there in the pronunciation of words (there is no r in colonel), how we could eliminate entire letters by using others (s and k for c, as phritzg noted earlier, f for ph). Then the author finished with a paragraph using the new rules. It was hard to read even though it followed from everything he had said earlier.

Sorro??! sebra? succhini?

Phonics or fonix? You decide.

Who’s to say what’s right and wrong here anyway? Just because “Z” is pronounced “zee” in American English and “zed” in British English doesn’t mean ether one is wrong. Besides, “Zed” will always mean Sean Connery’s character in the movie “Zardoz” to me (great soundtrack, by the way, courtesy of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony)!

The pronunciation ‘zed’ comes from the Greek name of the letter ‘zeta’.Since the letter ‘b’ comes from the Greek ‘beta’, I wonder why we don’t pronounce its name ‘bed’.

English is a really weird language.