"Dear God, this means that both pronunciations are American! Now what do we do if we want to be "truly Canadian"? Well, of course they're both American. Where else would we get a Mexican Spanish word for a native animal from? It's hardly likely to have come into Canadian English via Britain, or to have leapfrogged right over the United States to land in Canada untarnished. We could of course also ask the philosophical question as to why it would be better if it had come from Britain, but the point is moot." And remember kids, it's pronounced "zed". As in : zed - e - d. Meanwhile,
the Anti-Rudy says she is a New Democrat. What Canadians know as
New Democrats most Americans call socialists and communists.