Zed

n. Z, letter Z, zee (British)

ZeD is a Canadian variety television series and website. The series premiered on CBC Television in March 2002 and ran to 2006. Hosted primarily by Sharon Lewis and Ziya Tong, ZeD publicized creative works from Canada and other countries, including a substantial portion of material created by viewers and new artists. ZeD thus considered itself to be "open-source television."
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Zed (IPA: //) is the pronunciation of the last letter of the alphabet Z used by the majority of English-speaking people outside of the United States (where it is pronounced "zee" (//)).Zed can also refer to the following.
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Noun
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"
(synonym) Z, zee, ezed, izzard
(hypernym) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character

(n.)
The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard.
  

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).