In Canada, we pronounce it "zed".
Just like the word "red", but with a zee instead of an arh.
TxBuilder: When milk bags first came out, one thing I did like about them was that, because they could change shape, you could pack them just about anywhere in the fridge. You didn't have to dedicate valuable real estate inside the fridge to milk storage. You could stash milk bags between the bottle necks in a case of beer or put a milk bag in the empty space inside a tub of ice cream. They'd fit anywhere. You can't do that with a gallon jug of milk.
Believe it or not:
While they were selling milk in bags here in Canada, some Canadian imbecile sunk his life savings into inventing, developing and marketing a new and improved milk bag jug called "The Spike Jug". It was a jug with a hard sharp plastic spike molded into the bottom so that you could impale the milk bag onto that spike to fill the jug with milk.
And, I had trouble believing anyone was that stupid. When I first saw it being advertised on a late night infomercial, I thought it was supposed to be a joke. One of the benefits of the milk bag system was that you didn't have to wash out the jug cuz the milk was always in a sterilized bag. This guy invents a way to give people more work... now they have to wash out the stupid jug too. And, with that sharp spike inside the jug, I can imagine people getting minor injuries to their hands washing and drying the thing. Yeah, that invention wasn't one of our prouder achievements.
PS: Here's hoping that "Top Kill" plan for capping that BP oil well in the Gulf coast works.