OK, I am not Canadian and I totally did not get most of those....but I guess thats how its supposed to be! I just had to chime in to say that DH had a friend in high school nicknamed "Zed". Why? Because he was Canadian but came to the US for high schoool. On the first day the teacher asked him to spell his name in class- lucky him, his last name had two "zeds" in it! The kids got a kick out of it, and that was it. He was called "Zed" for the next 4 years!