zed

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
zed
    n 1: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z
         zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee";
         "he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: {Z}, {z}, {zee},
         {zed}, {ezed}, {izzard}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Zed \Zed\, n. [F., probably through It. zeta, fr. L. zeta. See
   {Zeta}.]
   The letter {Z}; -- called also {zee}, and formerly {izzard}.
   "Zed, thou unnecessary letter!" --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Zed

   1978.  Software Portability Group, U Waterloo.  {Eh}, with
   types added.  Similar to {C}.  Implementation language for the
   {Thoth} realtime operating system.  Added a few simple types
   for greater efficiency on byte-addressed machines.  String
   constants in case statements.  Enforces the naming convention:
   MANIFESTS, Externals and locals.  "Porting the Zed Compiler",
   G.B. Bonkowski et al, SIGPLAN Notices 14(8):92-97 (Aug 1979).
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