We have Expert, Exit, Excited, Extra, Etcetera.
Since the letter X is pronounced EX anyway, why do we feel compelled to stick an E before the X anyway? Why not Xit, Xtra, Xpert? Not as common usage, but official in the dictionary change? Is anyone seeing the letters Xit going to try to pronouce it something like Ksit?
Back in the 1950s in a "white Australia" they taught us a 44-letter alphabet that we could use for pronunciation. No diphthongs, pairs or ambiguous sounds. It even used to bob up in dictionaries. Nowadays everyone is trying to learn everyone else's language it's been extended so far that you couldn't teach it to primary school kids. Doubt if I could even read it now, but it doesn't matter, that's why they invented pictograms, isn't it?
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Originally posted by sonhouseErm... There's no X in Et Cetera...
We have Expert, Exit, Excited, Extra, Etcetera.
Since the letter X is pronounced EX anyway,
Not in all languages, and not in combination with any other letter. You don't chop wood with an a-ex, do you? Or wear tuhexedos to parties?
Why not Xit, Xtra, Xpert? Not as common usage, but official in the dictionary change? Is anyone seeing the letters Xit going to try to pronouce it something like Ksit?
Yes. Unless they're Anglophone, in which case they're probably going to pervert them to Zit, Ztra and Zpert, as they already did with words like Xylophone and Xenophobia. But in most other languages, including the ones in which those words originate, the X is pronounced as X, not as Ex or Z.
Richard
Originally posted by Shallow BlueYou haven't learned to read? I gave a series that I didn't want to Xtend more than a few Xamples and used the word Etcetera as you would normally in such a situation, of course there are Xceptions😉
Erm... There's no X in Et Cetera...
[b]Since the letter X is pronounced EX anyway,
Not in all languages, and not in combination with any other letter. You don't chop wood with an a-ex, do you? Or wear tuhexedos to parties?
Why not Xit, Xtra, Xpert? Not as common usage, but official in the dictionary change? Is anyone seeing the letters X ...[text shortened]... he ones in which those words originate, the X is pronounced as X, not as Ex or Z.
Richard
Originally posted by KewpieThere are three more letters in the Swedish alphabet - all of which vowels:
Back in the 1950s in a "white Australia" they taught us a 44-letter alphabet that we could use for pronunciation. No diphthongs, pairs or ambiguous sounds. It even used to bob up in dictionaries. Nowadays everyone is trying to learn everyone else's language it's been extended so far that you couldn't teach it to primary school kids. Doubt if I could even read it now, but it doesn't matter, that's why they invented pictograms, isn't it?
Å pronounced 'o' like in 'more'
Ä pronounced something like 'ai' in 'hair'
Ö pronounced something like 'u' in 'further'
We only use W in names and imported foreign words too, of course.
Well, this was just my contribution to this thread.
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Originally posted by sonhouseWhat about Xmas. The X in this case is pronounced "christ".
We have Expert, Exit, Excited, Extra, Etcetera.
Since the letter X is pronounced EX anyway, why do we feel compelled to stick an E before the X anyway? Why not Xit, Xtra, Xpert? Not as common usage, but official in the dictionary change? Is anyone seeing the letters Xit going to try to pronouce it something like Ksit?