Re: CHAT: Epenthetic vowels (was: RE: chat: weird names)
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 8, 1999, 8:28 |
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On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> BTW, anyone ever notice how a lot of English speakers pronounce the name
> Xavier as /Egzeivi@r/ or /Igzeivi@r/?
>
Of the three people I knew who read XMen comics I said /zeivi@/, another
said /Egzeivi@/, and the third, a philatelist, said /heivi@/. He made the
point of pronouncing things and he was more used to reading Javier than
Xavier.
>
- andrew.
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