Starting to think that the cabal behind the scenes who pick the name for each generation chose “Gen Z” just as one more way to inflict bloody Americanisms on English. Just heard someone in the pub say “Gen Zee”. No, I say to this. No.

@sil I've had multi hour long phone calls to diagnose network issues with Americans where each party says the word "router" approximately 100 times per call and both of us steadfastly sticking to our guns regarding our own respective pronunciations.

@foobarry @sil I used to work on/with the IBM System Z mainframe team; that was pretty hard.

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@penguin42 @sil Mainframe folks don't still pronounce the Z "three-sixty", then?

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