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How exactly do you pronounce 'Brexit'?
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renard gris
18-09-2016
Warning - Pedant alert!

So, I was watching Sky News the other day and the newsreader (Scottish guy, can't remember his name) pronounced 'Brexit' as 'Bregzit'. I've also heard a few others on the TV use this pronunciation as well. Has anybody else noticed this, or is it just me? I pronounce 'Brexit' with the 'x' sound.

Apologies if there's already a similar thread, but the search function on here is cr*p and Google didn't show any similar threads to this.
blueblade
18-09-2016
BRE (as in the first three letters of "breakfast") add on the X (BRE X) then IT

Adding the G is just wrong on so many levels.
stoatie
18-09-2016
Originally Posted by renard gris:
“Google didn't show any similar threads to this.”

Crazy, huh? It's a real hot-button issue.

Some people pronounce "exit" as "eggsit". I imagine it's related. Happy to help.
jp761
18-09-2016
Leave me your phone number i'll show you. lol..

Doctor_Wibble
18-09-2016
I don't see how anyone would pronounce it as anything other than 'exit' with a 'br' stuck on the front.

Did these people also pronounce 'want' as 'wunt'? Because annoying too...
KIIS102
18-09-2016
I've noticed this too. It wasn't so noticeable before the vote but now we'll be leaving, obviously it's being used a lot more. It's making me more and more annoyed that so many people can't say Brexit without sticking a G in the middle of the word!
Doctor_Wibble
18-09-2016
Originally Posted by stoatie:
“Some people pronounce "exit" as "eggsit".”

That's either a hatchery term or a badly-planned omelette.
Fairyprincess0
18-09-2016
I was gonna come up with a jokey answer to this.... But i dont think i could with pages and page of other peoples whinging....
lightdragon
18-09-2016
I pronounce it like I'm feeding kids porridge.

Here's your Ready Brek SIT!!! Just the last two words, and without the sass.
joshua321
18-09-2016
Doesn't it rather depend how you pronounce the word 'exit'?

Usually reading the letter 'x' triggers the 'hard c' phoneme followed by the 's' phoneme, such as in the words 'exercise', 'excellent', 'execute'.

But some words can also take on different pronunciations for the 'x', for example 'example', 'exonerate', 'exam'. 'Exit' is one of those. Sometimes the initial 'e' changes too, to be an 'i' (but not in the case of 'exit').

I have heard 'exit' as:

Ecsit, Eczit, Egzit (most common)

and 'exam' as:

Ecsam, Eczam, Egzam, Igzam (most common)

Come to thing of it I think I say 'Egzit' but 'Brecsit'....the English language is nothing if not inconsistent!
swingaleg
18-09-2016
Not something I've ever thought about...........until now !

I'm with the Scottish newsreader.........Bregzit

Exit is Egzit
Doctor_Wibble
18-09-2016
Originally Posted by joshua321:
“Usually reading the letter 'x' triggers the 'hard c' phoneme followed by the 's' phoneme, such as in the words 'exercise', 'excellent', 'execute'.”

I think it's dependent on which syllable is getting the emphasis - the 'ex' in these examples gets the emphasis whereas the emphasis in 'example' is in the 'ahm' after the 'egs'.

Presumably that's why some words make for better eggsamples of eggsaggerated punnage?

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“Come to thing of it I think I say 'Egzit' but 'Brecsit'....the English language is nothing if not inconsistent!”

Pronouncing 'exit' as 'egzit' just seems terribly non-committal without any emphasis anywhere, is the portal of departure such a trivial thing that it does not deserve this recognition?
Arcana
18-09-2016
brick-shit
joshua321
18-09-2016
Originally Posted by Doctor_Wibble:
“I think it's dependent on which syllable is getting the emphasis - the 'ex' in these examples gets the emphasis whereas the emphasis in 'example' is in the 'ahm' after the 'egs'.

Presumably that's why some words make for better eggsamples of eggsaggerated punnage?


Pronouncing 'exit' as 'egzit' just seems terribly non-committal without any emphasis anywhere, is the portal of departure such a trivial thing that it does not deserve this recognition?”

Interesting. In 'egzit', I put the emphasis on the 'eg'. Then you have words like 'connection' that some older people still spell as 'connexion', which is a nightmare in terms of phonetics to determine how the 'csh' sounds are made - the 'c' presumably is made by the 'x' and the 'sh' presumably by the 'x followed by i'.
_ben
18-09-2016
Originally Posted by renard gris:
“(Scottish guy, can't remember his name) pronounced 'Brexit' as 'Bregzit'. I've also heard a few others on the TV use this pronunciation as well.”

Were you watching Histor's Eye?
solarflare
18-09-2016
Maybe more importantly (or, indeed, not), how is everyone pronouncing the more mangled "breadxit" of #breadxit Great British Bake Off social media malarky?
gomezz
18-09-2016
Adenoidal Ignoramuses!
skazza
18-09-2016
If it's not 'exit' with a 'Br' in front of it then what the **** is it?
davidmcn
18-09-2016
The OED has both "eksit" and "egzit" as acceptable (or at least recognised) pronunciations of "exit".
CBFreak
18-09-2016
Breaks it
gomezz
18-09-2016
"Freedom!"
jjwales
19-09-2016
I pronounce EXIT as EGZIT but BREXIT as BREKSIT.
muggins14
19-09-2016
Originally Posted by stoatie:
“Crazy, huh? It's a real hot-button issue.

Some people pronounce "exit" as "eggsit". I imagine it's related. Happy to help.”

Haha
muggins14
19-09-2016
Originally Posted by skazza:
“If it's not 'exit' with a 'Br' in front of it then what the **** is it?”

It's madness I tell you, madness
lulu g
19-09-2016
I've noticed most English people she 'eck-sit' and therefore 'breck-sit', while Scots tend to say 'eg-zit and therefore 'breg-zit'. All are correct.
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