Talk:ゼドゥ

RFV discussion: March–June 2018
I have never seen it before. It seems an invention by an English speaker, because an English “short” vowel with a coda sounds like a geminate (sokuon) to the Japanese speakers’ ears (therefore ゼット or ゼッド) but this transcription doesn’t reflect that. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 06:03, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Could it have come from another language besides English, like ? —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 14:52, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
 * If memory serves, the contributor who added this had trouble getting English right- I would be surprised if they knew any French or Japanese. I wonder where they got this from? Chuck Entz (talk) 15:24, 25 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Google ゼドゥ seems to be the letter Z (zed):
 * ラテン語：zeta（ゼータ）
 * アメリカ以外の英語：zed（/zɛd/, ゼドゥ）
 * アメリカ：zee(/ziː/,ズィー)
 * オランダ、スラヴ語：ゼット
 * U (ユ)　｜　V (ヴェ)　｜　W1 (ドゥブルヴェ)
 * X　(イクス)　｜　Y2 (イグレク)　｜　Z (ゼドゥ)
 * Also, a name ゼドゥ・ルーブル (Zed Rouble??). —Stephen (Talk) 01:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * That is their best effort of phonetic notation. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 17:28, 26 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Quick-and-dirty comparison. Restricted to Google Books, we find:
 * -- 47 hits, collapsing to 18 when paging through.
 * -- 27,100 hits, collapsing to 514 when paging through.
 * When looking at the wider web, and not bothering to page through:
 * -- 527 hits.
 * -- 99,500,000 hits.
 * Seems like the former is quite rare, and scanning through the first page of hits, it seems like many cases might be personal names or other non-CFI-worthy usage. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 23:53, 26 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Japanese never uses ドゥ as transcription/transliteration of final [d], unless the whole point is to accurately transcribe and illustrate a foreign pronunciation. Final [d] is almost always ド, as in ゼッド. レッド, etc. ドゥ at the end of a borrowing almost always corresponds to [du] or something to that effect in the donor language, as in ザナドゥ (Xanadu), レア・セドゥ (Léa Seydoux), etc. Nardog (talk) 19:18, 29 March 2018 (UTC)


 * RFV failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 13:06, 4 June 2018 (UTC)