Maggers Wrote:Yeah, that's what I thought until I read the full question.
Now I have a question about pronunciation.
Xelton? Like "Zelton?" I hope.
X= Z in pronunciation, except in Spanish.
Please don't tell me it's pronounced the way so many New Yorkers pronounce "Xavier." And I don't mean the Spanish version. NY'ers pronounce "Xavier" "eX-avier" like "x-ray." Hate that.
Xavier was my dad's middle name, and he always prounounced it as "Zavier," like "xylophone" is "zylophone."
Aside: Xylophone reminds me of the time, long ago, when my mother sent my father to go Christmas shopping - for the first and last time. She told him to buy a xylophone, and he came home with a glockenspeil. We liked it anyway.
Maggers,
Paul went to Xavier undergrad, so of course he pronounces it correctly!
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Biggles Wrote:Maggers,
Paul went to Xavier undergrad, so of course he pronounces it correctly!
I know! I just found out! I just read the introduction to "Be Fruitful and Multiply" in SOFT AND OTHERS where FPW states that.
My dad went to Xavier, too! It is a small world. I've got a sweet story about the choirmaster at Xavier and my parents' wedding day that I may tell at the GU.
My dad was born in 1910, so he attended Xavier long before FPW. At the time he attended Xavier, he lived in the neighborhood, too.
Small world!
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd
Maggers Wrote:Yeah, that's what I thought until I read the full question.
Now I have a question about pronunciation.
Xelton? Like "Zelton?" I hope.
X= Z in pronunciation, except in Spanish.
Please don't tell me it's pronounced the way so many New Yorkers pronounce "Xavier." And I don't mean the Spanish version. NY'ers pronounce "Xavier" "eX-avier" like "x-ray." Hate that.
Xavier was my dad's middle name, and he always prounounced it as "Zavier," like "xylophone" is "zylophone."
Aside: Xylophone reminds me of the time, long ago, when my mother sent my father to go Christmas shopping - for the first and last time. She told him to buy a xylophone, and he came home with a glockenspeil. We liked it anyway.
So yez doan like da way weeze pronounces, eh, Maggers? Ain't nothin' woise den a self-hatin' Noo Yawker.
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:So yez doan like da way weeze pronounces, eh, Maggers? Ain't nothin' woise den a self-hatin' Noo Yawker.
Nah, I ain't no self hatin' Noo Yawka. I kin tolerate yoos and dem's and doz as much as da next guy.
It's jus' dat "eX-avier" gets unda my skin like nuttin' else. Dat's all.
Dat's all.
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd
Biggles Wrote:Maggers,
Paul went to Xavier undergrad, so of course he pronounces it correctly!
None of you gringos knows how to properly pronounce Xavier. It should be "ha-ve-ehr" not "ex-zavier".
And don't get me started on "no problemo"!
You poor white people!
Susanita
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