Kilts in the Olympic Opening Ceremony

**Galician** · 13th February 10, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by Colin

That's Gretzky with a zed

We just call him "the Great One" in Canada.

Zed, what's a zed?

**johnnym** · 14th February 10, 12:02 PM

I have seen Gretzky spelled with an ess instead of a zed. As I understand, zed is the British pronunciation of the letter "z".

**BruceBC** · 14th February 10, 02:21 PM

Yes, indeedy.. we say Z as Zed ..not zeeeeeee.

**Dixiecat** · 14th February 10, 05:14 PM

I have seen Gretzky spelled with an ess instead of a zed

True, but Wayne's name is with the zed.

Awesome ceremony!

**Bob C** · 14th February 10, 08:10 PM

Those tartan things were hardly kilts, but the fiddle music was great.

**BruceBC** · 14th February 10, 11:25 PM

I used kilt like in the most general sense. But some of the women were wearing kilts as were a few of the male dancers who did not make it on tv.

**wildrover** · 15th February 10, 06:48 PM

Kilts or no, it was cool! And it led to a good evening:

I watched the opening ceremonies with some friends. At one point, prior to the arrival of the tartan, I wandered off during a bit of interpretive dance...to...practice my bagpipes. Really.

I came back upstairs to comments like "that was really cool!", and then the tartan showed up in the opening ceremonies...somebody asked "why is that guy sort of wearing a kilt?" and another comment about how they were stealing Samoan art that had nothing to do with Canada

. It was a good evening, I got to explain the images ( as well as the tartan

)...and found out a bunch of the guys and girls had various Scottish connections.

End result was, I'm supposed to wear my kilt next time.

-Sean