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It is pronounced like it's spelled; the X is a chi.
by joeyo 10y ago
It is pronounced like it's spelled; the X is a chi.
- yborg 10y agoExcept the chi-derived 'X' in English is pronounced /ks/. As is true in Latin, from which our word 'archive' comes. If you really wanted to use a Greek chi, it should have been αρχείο.org...
- I_am_neo 10y agoOh no, we can't have luddites running around saying "ah-pex-io dot org"
- dkbrk 10y agoIs it spelt that way, though? X is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X Χ is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI Everywhere I have ever seen it spelt, it has been written with the Latin letter. I have never seen it spelt as "arχiv" or "arΧiv", only ever as "arXiv". I can understand why, for example, having a Greek letter in the URL would be undesirable, but if one is going to consider that letter to be Chi, then that should be the authoritative spelling and it should actually be spelt that way where possible.
- em3rgent0rdr 10y agoexcellent points. Indeed when I visit the page, the title is spelled as "arΧiv", not "arχiv".
- joeyo 10y agoGiven that the arXiv predates widespread Unicode adoption, I think we can forgive the faux pas of using a Latin X to represent a Greek χ.
- robotresearcher 10y agoGiven the the "Archive" homophone, it is obviously intended to be pronounced that way. The spelling is secondary to the common pronunciation, as usual in English.