X marks the spot (was: txt msgs & BrSc)

At 12:02 am -0400 18/6/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown scripsit:
>
>> Indeed, there
>> is a distinct tendency here for semi-literate to read initial x- as /Egz/
>> in unusual words, e.g.  'xanthic' /Eg"zanTIk/, 'xiphoid' /Eg"zIfQjd/,
>> 'Xerxes' /Eg"z@(r)ksiz/, etc.  I've even heard /Eg"zajl@f@un/ !
>
>Here too.  I even know some Javiers who think the English version of
>their name is /Eksejvi@r/!
Yep - I'd forgotten one.  Common enough here: "St Francis Exavier"

Ray.

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