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'Zed' is a form of the Greek name for the letter: "Zeta."

Americans only changed it to "Zee" after our split with Britain, in a feeble attempt to make our language different.

Same reason we went through a period of spelling 'Socks' as 'Sox' and why we took the u out of 'colour.' ... Some of the changes stuck, and some didn't.

What I want to know is (and have yet to find a satisfying answer to): How did alphabets get to have difinitive 'Alphabetic orders' long before literacy (much less dictionaries) became common?

Also: Has anyone written a song for the QWERTY alphabet order, yet (Or shall I have to do it?) ;-)