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Originally Posted by Acajack
This is extremely surprising as Newfoundland is generally the biggest place for Britishisms in Canada by far. Stuff like saying tins for cans is much more common in Nfld.
Are you sure it's not just you?
I'd be very surprised if people in southern Ontario and the lower mainland of BC still say zed quite predominantly (as they do) and Newfoundlanders say zee.
This merits further inquiry.
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I doubt it's
just me, but it could be. Doesn't come up often, so I've no idea what anyone else says.
Asked around - one friend from NS usually says zee but says zed when, say, reading out a postal code, one from here says both depending on context, and one from here said, "I probably say zad."
EDIT: Heard back from one more, from Alberta. "I'm 70/30 zed/zee. Precisely 70/30 lol."