2662: 3 Names for Z Apr 1, 2022

The letter Z in America is called 'zee' and basically everywhere else in the anglophone world, 'zed'. There is a third version though, widely used nowhere, called 'izzard', though this was somewhat more popular in the 18th century. Unlike the other two which either follows the pattern of other letters 'cee; dee; tee' or following the Greek zeta. Instead, this form probably comes from the French 'ézed', though the word now is ‘zède‘.