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I always grew up hearing the word "exit" pronounced, "eks it" with no voiced consonants. Now I am hearing "eggz id" with basically all consonants voiced. What's up with that???
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I generally say it "eggz-it," with the "t" as a glottal stop rather than a voiceless alveolar plosive.
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I say it the same as Mr. Furious... although I would have spelled it differently. Does that count for anything?
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Interesting. When I saw the subject line, I thought, "'Ek-sit,' of course. How else would you say it?" If I did hear someone say "eg-zit," I wouldn't even notice. But apart from the participle "exiting," I don't think I've ever heard the "t" rendered as a "d."
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I have always pronounced it x-it, I know quite a few people who pronounce it eggs-it, but that always sounds wrong to me.
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quote:Originally posted by Scout: I have always pronounced it x-it, I know quite a few people who pronounce it eggs-it, but that always sounds wrong to me.
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I have never heard it pronounced any way other than x it.
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I say egg sit.
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I'm not 100% sure, since my linguistic sense is screwed up by saying the word "exit" about a dozen times, but I'm pretty sure I say /Eg zIt/. Although /Ex sIt/ sounds okay to me too. When I work it into a sentence, though, yeah, I'm sure I voice the medial consonants.
Weird. Other words with a medial x, I pronounce unvoiced. "proximity," for example. But I pronounce "example" /Eg z&m pl/. Could the /E/ be conditioning the /k/? But why would the /E/ voice the /k/ and not other vowels.
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My dad says "eggzit". I didn't think there was anything wrong with that. He says a lot of funny things. What to expect? He's from the South...of Minnesota, that is.
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I just realized I say "egg-zit" when speaking casually (I often slur my speech) but when I'm giving directions I enunciate and say "ex-it".
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Sometimes I say eks-it and sometimes I say eggs-it, pretty randomly.
I think part of the difference is what works you're saying in the same sentence. Some word combinations might make one syllable easier to pronounce.
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It's just an idiosyncracy of mine...hmmm, but now I think of it, it does explain a lot of tragic deaths over the years.
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eggz-it, with a t not a d or a glotaal stop.
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I guess I realize that I vary between ex-it and egg-zit.
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quote:Originally posted by Soft Hyphen: Egg-zit. Egg-zit-ing.
That's how I always heard it. A (non-exclusively) Canadian thing, maybe?
That could be. We have three people in the office here, one who grew up in the West, one from Ontario and one who grew up in the Maritimes. We all pronounce it egg-zit.
One other pronunciation question that did come up concerns the word "bury". Does it rhyme with hairy or hurry?
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quote:Originally posted by Purple Iguana: I say it the same as Mr. Furious... although I would have spelled it differently. Does that count for anything?
If you would've spelled it "eggs-it," it could be read differently (e.g. as a voiceless alveolar (sibilant) fricative rather than a voiced one). That's why I used "z" instead of "s," as "z" is always voiced though "s" can signify either sound, depending on the word.
In other words, "eggs-it" could conceivably either be pronounced as "egg-zit" or "egg-sit."
That's how I always heard it. A (non-exclusively) Canadian thing, maybe?
And I thought canadians would say "eh, xit." But yeah, I pronounce it myself "x it" with a hard ks sound.
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I pronounce it, "Guys, does this look infected?"
I also find that "Will you marry me?" is another common variation on pronunciation.
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I pronounce it both eggzit and x-it. Also, bury rhymes with berry. For me. lol (My grandmother says something else that doesn't rhyme with hurry or merry).
quote:Originally posted by simply: ...Also, bury rhymes with berry. For me. lol (My grandmother says something else that doesn't rhyme with hurry or merry).
Oh berry me not, on the lone prairie, Berries make me itch, most painfully, I'm allergic to ev'ry known berry, So berry me not, on the lone prairie.
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