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Mais non?

It is actually pronounced Zenon, I was being a twat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX1xRtDXIvE

That's very informative, thanks.

Xenon is never Ksenon.

You're right, but why Xavier is Gzavier and not Zavier?

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why Xavier is Gzavier and not Zavier?

..why Javier is Schawié, not Chardonnay?

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It isn't. Not in UK anyway.

Damn, 5 years since the pronunciation book thing ended. It was so underwhelming for such a long and crazy buildup.

First thing that came up, there was a build up to this?

there's no vowel between the K and the n. It's like the -(c)kn- in 'Hackney' or 'Cockney'

As pronounced, there is a weak unstressed vowel because k is a velar plosive. Don't make it as strong as the one in cockerney or people will think you can't speak German 😁

why Xavier is Gzavier and not Zavier?

@xavierdisley is Zav in English, except on the TT podcast, in which Mark Florence insists on calling him Eksavier 🤔

Yep, the only option is short or long 'e'.

The channel ran for something like 3 years just posting videos of how to say random words, had hundreds of videos. Occasionally there would be some weird stuff in some of them, like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBGoX0d1HVA

Teaching you how to say "something terrible happened on may 10th". The weirdness slowly built up over like 2 years with loads of crazy hidden stuff like a noise in one video that if you ran it through a spectrograph it showed a picture of something. Then a countdown started saying "something will happen in 77 days", with a line from a story or something added to each countdown day. I think part of it read in iambic pentameter if you rearranged it in a certain way IIRC.

Anyway it was properly weird and cool then it was revealed to be part of some dumb game called bear sterns bravo that had a really goofy style that was totally different to the buildup and everyone was disappointed.

I did a quick search to see if there's a site that explains all the cool parts of it since there's a ton that I've forgotten but it doesn't look like there is. It's pretty hard to explain the depth of it and how cool it was at the time.

I only know a French (Parisian) Xavier; so Zavier.

truly wierd

As pronounced

By whom?

And at some locations in the colonies.

By whom?

By people. You can make the schwa as short as possible, but I defy anybody to make it zero length as that would imply infinite tounge speed transitioning from velar k to alveolar n

Is there a schwa between the "c" and the "l" when you say "clear"?

I can leave the tip of my tongue in the post-alveolar position for the l while doing velar c. I can't leave it in the alveolar position while doing velar k. Maybe I would be able to do that if I had trained on a language which routinely required it. If you think most Germans can, and do, maintain contact between tongue and alveolar ridge while pronouncing velar stops, feel free to correct the Wikipedia article about Knipex 😉

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@chez_jay I did omit the starting /ɪ /.

I can leave the tip of my tongue in the post-alveolar position for the l while doing velar c.

So you double-articulate some consonant clusters? Do you manage with words like "scan"?

If I had time, I'd download Praat, re-learn how to use it, and start running out some spectrograms of The Post-Apocalyptic Inventor saying "Knipex" - of which there are many examples
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