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the great debate about what the last letter of the alphabet is called. Is it a "zee" or a "zed"?
Both sides have a fair argument. The British "zed" has a good etymological basis (the Greek letter "zeta"); the American "zee" is analogous to the way English forms names for most of the other letters.
But that has alway made me curious. Why is "zed" the only letter in British English that did not follow this path? After all, we don't say "alph" or "bet"... (Actually, it's not just British English. Other European languages do something similar, though German goes a bit further, following the Greek derivation in their names for "i" and "y".)
I don't care what Google fight says. When I take a bus to philly, I use Greyhound, not Grayhound
That's because "greyhound" is not a form of "gray/grey" but it's own distinct word -- and the spelling with "e" is the only correct spelling of the word everywhere. (I don't think this sort of thing terribly unusual with compound words, though I can't think of other examples at the moment.)
It even says so on the bus....
This bus isn't by chance short ;)
Off subject, but I did a webmaster vs google and I now know who has the real power.
Color [answers.com] vs. Colour [answers.com]
Colour = Variant of color.
And the winner is... (thanks to twist, I forgot about that tool.)
Color vs. Colour [googlefight.com]
