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How do we pronounce this? Re-LACKED?
by foobaw 8y ago
How do we pronounce this? Re-LACKED?
- fmntf 8y agoProbably. People is abusing the X letter (do they know that it is not pronounced anymore as "ki" in modern greek?).
- Mediterraneo10 8y ago> Do they know that it is not pronounced anymore as "ki" in modern greek? They may know that, but it is irrelevant. English lacks the phoneme /x/ and the usual substitution in assimilating foreign words (or the letter-play that Donald Knuth started with TeX) is the closest unvoiced velar that English has: /k/. See how most English speakers pronounce the name of J. S. Bach as [bak], with only a small number of pedants saying [bax]. Or, outside of Scotland, Loch Ness is usually [lɔk], not [lɔx].