As a Canadian, it drives me up the wall when I'm watching a Ski-doo video or TV segment & some Canadian that works for Ski-doo says MX Zee. Maybe I ought to send them an email *and straighten them out http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sly.gif

in Sweden we call them MX Zeta, sounds cooler than both zee and zed I think http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Well here in quebec we say MX-Zed

Around here everyone says MX Zee and some people even say "bom-ba-deer". Itry to straighten them out but its a big job!
* * * * Ryan

People who say "bom-ba-deer" drive me nuts. *That's just thick-headed.
But here in the US, mx-zee is what we say because our alphabet goes w-x-y-zee, not w-x-y-zed, like you canucks.

I had to pull the cover off of my 800 to see where the "d" was on my MXZ. Yous guys must have special graphics, you know, ones wif *MXZd?

Mxzed for everyone I know. Mxzee doesn't sound good in french anyway *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif I know some people who call them yellow rockets which is a better suited name IMHO *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif

Around here the yellow MXZEE`s are called Bananna peels. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Its ZED in Canada, eh! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
I hate when guys from the "sawth" say zee http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

My main beef is with that Kalhok guy that works for Ski-doo. His father was some big shot there. I wonder how he got the job? He was on Snowtrax this winter talking about the new sleds & when he was talking, he didn't sound too sure of himself, plus he kept saying zee.

Here at the Truck Plant, when the Americans are up from Detroit, it drives them crazy when we say Zed 71 or start talking metric * http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sly.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Whats a zed? Its z for me. How do you guys sing your abc's?? W *x * Y and ZED?http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif Now I know my abc's ........ http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">How do you guys sing your abc&#39;s?? W *x * Y and ZED?[/b][/quote]

Yup, same thing in french too. And that W (double U) is double V in french which makes more sense *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">that W (double U) is double V in french which makes more sense[/b][/quote]

I like to say &#39;double V&#39; just for fun, because that&#39;s what is, a double V!

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">when we say Zed 71 or start talking metric *[/b][/quote]

Ha that reminds me why I used to always call you canucks "Metricans"!

metric is best! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif On my 2002 *Arctic Cat Video they pronounce the * Zed R
as Zee R . sounds weird to me ........ Zee R sounds goofy!
same with MxZee

* you catch mt drift!!! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

revrnd,
*what tuck plant are you talking about ?
*it&#39;s Zed and i have heard turkeys say doubl-lue for W oh well we better get off this before we all get into not liking the way some make their eights. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

Paul, I&#39;m a tool & die maker in the GM truck plant in Oshawa.

What are you guys talking abooot?
It&#39;s a MXZeeeee for me! Or a yuppy yellow rocket.
OK, is it bacon or ham? And what&#39;s a tewk (sp?)
You canadians doo have much better whiskey (Rye) then we
doo here in the states. I&#39;ll take Crown over Jack, Jim or
John any day.

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif How doo you canadians say "Zebra" eh? *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Thank Canada.....Thank Canada

Its mx zed for me and my buds

no no no,you guys got it all wrong. *Its ZEE.

MXZED hmmmm..... *sounds like so mixed drink from Costa Rica *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sleepy.gif



Last edited by mxz7 at May 17, 2002, 11:30pm

Here&#39;s my 2 cents worth. Being from the states, it&#39;s ZEE but think about it, ZED rhymes with lead and dead. That&#39;s not the words I want my sled associated with. Besides, I live amongst people who call snowmobiles "sno-cats" and I kindly tell them I don&#39;t drive a trail groomer.

Where the heck in MN are you that they&#39;re saying &#39;sno-cat&#39;?

Minnesota is near Manitoba. Don&#39;t they still call them power toboggans there? http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I&#39;m in the northern Red River Valley, and if you&#39;ve ever been there, you&#39;ll agree it&#39;s the flattest, most treeless, windiest place on the planet. The "sno-cat" thing is used on both sides of the river from Grand Forks to the Canadian border. It&#39;s got to be some sort of "Valley Talk", because you don&#39;t hear it in other parts of MN or ND. Maybe it&#39;s because the Cat house in TRF is there.

zed also rhymes with sled

Wierd.
They&#39;re just &#39;sleds&#39; over here on the east side.

I was a little lost there for a minute. I had no idea people called them MX ZED. Does any one know what MX Z stands for? It&#39;s probably a stupid question I&#39;m sure every one here knows.

That&#39;s a good question. *I&#39;ve never thought about it, never realized I have no idea what it stands for..

Guys i dont know what the MX stands for, but what i do know is that the Z stands for ZED. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Motocross Z. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

ZED!!!

I say ZED for Mxz and I say Zee when saying Mach Z about 70% *of the time.

Interesting point Machzzz1....I ride an MX Zed but my cousin rides a Formula Zee. That&#39;s just how its always been http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Its what ever sound better to you! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

I guess it depends on your alphabet. *If a Mexican saw a sled (and didn&#39;t think it was some kind of space ship) he would call it a Mach "Zeta" (pronounced &#39;say-tah&#39http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif or an MXZ would be "emmay eckeess saytah"

Mx-Zed

Mach-Zed

Formula-Z

Mini-Zed

W X Y and Zed !!!


Zee just sounds bad...

Well I would have to say zed and being that bombardier is a Canadian company zed is the way we pronounce the last letter of the alphabet up here in the great white north eh so mx zed is the way for me http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Here you canucks go...from the english dictionary.

z or Z * Pronunciation Key *(ze)
n. pl. z&#39;s or Z&#39;s also zs or Zs
The 26th letter of the modern English alphabet.
Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter z.
The 26th in a series.
Something shaped like the letter Z.

z

\Z\ (z[=e]; in England commonly, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke,


I see no zed!

And maybe what the Z stands for....

atomic number
n. Symbol Z Abbr. at. no.
The number of protons in an atomic nucleus
*http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/baaa.gif

You tell &#39;em LadyK http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/exclamation.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif

This is what I have from my dictionnary, Canadian edition...

And there it is! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/withstupid.gif * * * * * * *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif *Right on AC

That&#39;s right AC . http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

If were all typing in English I think it should be zee,no?But really,who cares still great machines!!! *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sleepy.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sleepy.gif

Zed sounds too much like DEAD!!!

-MX ZED
-MACH ZED
-FORMULA ZED
-MINI ZED
-ZED 71
-YZED
-ZED
-just to add we make the best beer and whiskey
-ABCDEFG,HIJKLMNOP,QRS,TUV,WXY AND ZED AND WE DON&#39;T * *
HAVE NO STUPID RYHME THINGY LIKE THE YANKS
AND YES I AM IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING MYSELF A PET BEAVER!!!!!!!!
I AM CANADIAN

"Nice beaver!"

"Thank&#39;s. I just got it stuffed."

With apologies to Leslie Nielsen (another famous Canadian) & Priscilla Presley.

I can understand you canucks using zed, but at least be consistant! *How can you say MXZed, but then say Mach Zee? *Maybe that is a little wishful thinking on your part, trying to sound like a yank! *ha ha. *Just jokin.

Anyhow, it&#39;s Zee for me in traditional Yank fashion. *Since you guys knew what MXZ stood for, motor cross Z, what does ZR stand for?http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif *And come to think of it, I don&#39;t remember any canucks saying ZedR when I&#39;m up north. *I know I&#39;ve heard MXZed. *How do you guys say ZR?

Zed R here on the prairies...but that&#39;s a whole new topic on its own..... http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif Hardly ever use THAT name http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Mach zed and I too have a pet beaver. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Zed-R, And id never here people call them Mach-Zee, its always Mach-Zed

Add another Mach Zed & Zed R here http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I never heard something as strange as "mach zed" until I watched the ski-doo promo video and that guy from Canada on there said it. *I only reinforced my opinion of how goofy you canucks are!
LadyK, can you email me a pic of your beaver?

Where are the moderators when you need them? http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (performancex @ June 05, 2002, 3:45pm)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I never heard something as strange as "mach zed" until I watched the ski-doo promo video and that guy from Canada on there said it. *I only reinforced my opinion of how goofy you canucks are!
LadyK, can you email me a pic of your beaver?[/b][/quote]
What beaver are you talking about *? im sur permafrost is gonna make sure she sends you the right one http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Sure performanceX send 49.95USD to my paypal account. *I have an army of beavers to contend with here http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif They are constantly damning my creek up and flooding the forest. I sicked the trapper on them last winter= 6 less beavers but i still see them everyday

I&#39;m sure LadyK has a nice beaver but everyone as I said everyone around here says Zed R, or YZed in motocross, like come on, YZee? how can you stand that? sounds sorta elton johnish if yah know what I mean(sorry if anybody likes him and I offended them, lol). Or take the fan class arctic cats, Zed 440, Zed 370, that sounds terrible with Zee, but then again it isn&#39;t Zedbra, lol just some words work different, there is a difference between the English Canadian and English American!!!!!!!!!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">sounds sorta elton johnish if yah know what I mean(sorry if anybody likes him and I offended [/b][/quote]

I&#39;m sure Rocketman will take it lightly!

MXZeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!, please people, only brits say zed.

Or is Sweden it&#39;s all MXZeta(pronounce: em,ex;zaaaatta)

I must have grown up too close to the US, as I&#39;m a Mach Zee man.
I used to get in trouble in public school for saying zee. *Then they switched to metric, and I used to get in trouble for saying inches, and degrees F.

No wonder I&#39;m messed up.

FishHog

P.S. please add the $49.95 to my cupcake order http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

I am as Canadian as they come and even I tell people I have an MX zee. I don&#39;t know it just give the name more justice to the way it sounds. Just like Arcticat Zed R series. Who the * * #$%# is going to say Zee R. That just sound stupid. Although I do not sing my a b zee&#39;s .

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FishHog @ June 18, 2002, 08:13am)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I must have grown up too close to the US, as I&#39;m a Mach Zee man.
I used to get in trouble in public school for saying zee. *Then they switched to metric, and I used to get in trouble for saying inches, and degrees F.

No wonder I&#39;m messed up.

FishHog

P.S. please add the $49.95 to my cupcake order http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif[/b][/quote]
With all the $$$$ you are sending lately we should be able to get Rocket and Snow monkey here no prob http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

MX zed here http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

MXZEEEE for me http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sly.gif

We say Zee here in Lower Michigan. Does that mean I can&#39;t ride with you folks that say Zed? Or are we all still snowmobilers? Or is it sledders? Or SnoCatters? Or Zedders?

idooski, we are all one big happy family. *I think. http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

This is like the never ending topic ! *

Lets get one thing strait, the important thing is that we all spell it *Z. who cares how we say it.

Exactly, but just for the record its ZED.. * http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Machzzzz can&#39;t let it go. *ha ha http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/withstupid.gif *I bet he got yelled at all the time for back talking or getting the last word! LOL
Caleb

Who dug up this moldy topic?http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif?? http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

this thread is going to be 7 pages long soon. I started a poll in the arcticat section to see if the trend way the say with the ZR or ZeeR. I wonder if that one is still going. Ok guys I think we beat this one to death. I belive in going by how it sound not where you live.

So would it be ZedR or ZeeR for a cat? Would it be MXZed and MXZeeX? You guys north of the border are getting us down here confused! http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif

You guys come up with some corny shet as far as topics, and what I`m about to say is true. We have a little dog.... a jack russell, and *the wife and I are real big into sleds and at the time the pooch was born I had a Mach Z, oddly enough the wife wanted to name the dog Moxie but as my brain works I just assumed that she meant Mach Z, so to make a long story short ( and you guys were hoping for some either real cereabreal finish to the story or maybe a harairious punchline) we actualy call the dog Mach Zed now. I think we can end this discussion now.

You guys are still arguing over this, geez man its MXZed

Ok, I think that it is time that we put this thread as a whole new forum with various interesting topics in order to get to the bottom of this pronunciation mystery. We should also get grants from both the Canadian and US government (and possibly other countries) to further this fundamental question.



By the way, it is Zed http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sarcasm.gif http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

AC, call up Sheila Copps (Canada&#39;s version of Tipper Gore, an annoying #$%^&) maybe she give us some money like those "free" flags. *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

I apologize if I offended anyone from Hamilton *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/withstupid.gif *http://www.snowmobileworld-s2.com/forums/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/devil.gif

can one of the moderators delete this thread because it is just to hard to not come in here.. hehehe This thing is going to be 70 pages long by the time we have floged it to death.


ps. mx zee

I agree with another MXZ. *Kill it along with the ZED R or ZEE R post in AC!

ya that zed R zee R thread was kind of my fault. It is not as long as this one but it sure stured the pot.

wasnt Zed a leading cheracter in the movie Men in Black ? I think he ran headquarters

since my trip to cochrane last yr it has been mxzee but mach zed :thumbsup:

I always say MX Zee and Mach Zee, thats what i always heard people call them when i was younger and it just stuck I guess

In the states, a Z is pronounced zee, but zed is cool. It certainly doesn&#39;t drive me nutz either way. :p

bumbardeea and mx zee!

wasnt Zed a leading cheracter in the movie Men in Black ? I think he ran headquarters[/b]


Correct! :thumbsup:


[attachment=35018:Zed___Rip_Torn.jpg] <----- Zed = Rip Torn

BUM-BAR-DEE-EHH ! :D

Snow4

Bee-aRr-Pee :cool: :D

bombadeer,mach zed.zed r,formula zed,zed 28 camaro,zed x platform and a zeebra. :cussing:

Correct! :thumbsup:


[attachment=35018:Zed___Rip_Torn.jpg] <----- Zed = Rip Torn[/b]

There was a "Zed" in Pulp Fiction too.

"Who&#39;s chopper is it?"

"Zed&#39;s"

"Who&#39;s Zed?"

"Zed&#39;s dead baby, Zed&#39;s dead."

MXZEE but MACHZED for me :rolleyes: go figure.

In the states zed is not part of our language. Using zed in such a way here sounds just as stupid to us as zee does to you Canadians.
The "z" in Z28 and the "Z" in the original Arctic cat Z were both taken from peoples last name. I feel that throwing that ed in there might be offensive to the people the companies were honoring.
These are just my opinions and I don&#39;t mean to offend or sound prejudiced. Say it how ever ya please.

Zee is gay

ZED is the proper saying :D

Zee is gay

ZED is the proper saying :D[/b]
whatever you say Freezedburnt :lmao:

ZED ARRRRRR :D

before FreezerBurnt I was FZed(still am on SGC.com btw)

The "z" in Z28 and the "Z" in the original Arctic cat Z were both taken from peoples last name.[/b]

I&#39;m pretty sure the Z in Z28 does not refer to Zora Arkus-Duntov. GM has used Z to prefix RPO codes for many years:

Z32: Canadian Pontiac Parisienne
Z34: Model Conversion Chevrolet Lumina
Z49: Mandatory Canadian Base Equipment
Z62: Sierra Grande/Scottsdale Trim
Z71: Off Road Chassis Package
Z88: GMC Conversion
ZY1: Solid Paint

Just to name a few. Type GM RPO codes into Google & you&#39;ll get a lot of hits.

W/ the next generation Camaro to be built in Oshawa, will a Zed 28 or Zee 28 be offered? If 1 is, I know what most of us in the plant will be calling it :devil: :D

I am as Canadian as they come and it is a MXZee to me and always will be because it rhymes better with 583. I say Zed28 for GM stuff

i&#39;m as canadian as they come and i say zee all the time, my kids always try to correct me lol. but to me i grew up in the 70&#39;s and 80&#39;s and it was always an iroc zee, or a zee 28, and its always been a zeebra. to me zee sounds much nicer and makes more sense.so i will say its a mxzee. the same as the older yami dirt bikes were a y zee 125.that was always one thing as a canadian i could never understand. i guess zed must be bilinguel up here and politically correct EH!!!! :rolleyes:

I&#39;m pretty sure the Z in Z28 does not refer to Zora Arkus-Duntov. GM has used Z to prefix RPO codes for many years:

Z32: Canadian Pontiac Parisienne
Z34: Model Conversion Chevrolet Lumina
Z49: Mandatory Canadian Base Equipment
Z62: Sierra Grande/Scottsdale Trim
Z71: Off Road Chassis Package
Z88: GMC Conversion
ZY1: Solid Paint

Just to name a few. Type GM RPO codes into Google & you&#39;ll get a lot of hits.

W/ the next generation Camaro to be built in Oshawa, will a Zed 28 or Zee 28 be offered? If 1 is, I know what most of us in the plant will be calling it :devil: :D[/b]


that must have been "THE" car to have when it was produced :lmao:

You forgot Zed22 and Zed24 or ZedR2 S10s :D

When in Rome do as the Romans do!!!
I wont say ZEEEE when I&#39;m in Canada
and you wont say ZED when in America.
Good,
Now that&#39;s all cleared up. :crazy:

No more Mach (zee, zed, whatever) for 08.