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Enough is enough (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Well, what other word do you use to teach a kid the alphabet? Xenophoe? Xenomorph?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Xolo - hairless Mexican dog

Xenops - small bird

(I don’t use X-Ray because saying the letter X doesn’t make either of the letter’s major phonetic sounds.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

saying the letter X doesn’t make either of the letter’s major phonetic sounds

Excuse me?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No, i think i get it but difficult to explain.

Say X, X, X in a row

Then say

Xylo , Xen, Xono

The Raw letter has different phonet-x to how it’s often applied.

When were talking about teaching kids the alphabet we need to train both individual and applied letters

I do realize that this might be very cultural and language dependent but i am pretty sure we’re talking plain english.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (8 children)

X, spoken as a letter = ecks

Hard phonetic sound = zz, same as the letter Z (almost always at the beginning of a word. Xylophone)