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Lolo in reply to @fizzy.bleach

I spent quite some time reading about phonetics last night...

@mespilus the K is not silent: /ksi/. I don't know the IPA symbol for the sound Brits add between the /k/ and the /s/, perhaps @fizzy.bleach can enlighten us.

@mdcc_tester I was thinking of the greek letter ξι?

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gbj_tester in reply to @Lolo

I was thinking of the greek letter ξι?

Which is usually transliterated into X for English (and others who get their Greek via Latin) readers, e.g. xenophobia, xylophone, Xanthi.
Slavs presumably use Ks (or Кс in Cyrillic) because Cyrillic Х is already analogous to Greek χ

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