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How to pronounce XOR...really?
Cubdriver:
Like most here, Ex-Or, seeing as it stands for Exclusive OR. I agree that those who pronounce it 'zor' likely don't know what it actually means. :palm:
-Pat
Bassman59:
--- Quote from: fourfathom on March 02, 2021, 04:37:21 pm ---I pronounce XOR like this: EX(clusive)OR. The "clusive" is silent.
"Zor" is silly, unless you are paying by the syllable.
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I can see someone who is an indigenous Mexican who speaks Spanish and zero background in electronics or logic pronouncing it as "zhor."
Xochitl would like a word with you.
And I live in Tuxon.
fourfathom:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on March 02, 2021, 07:42:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: fourfathom on March 02, 2021, 04:37:21 pm ---I pronounce XOR like this: EX(clusive)OR. The "clusive" is silent.
"Zor" is silly, unless you are paying by the syllable.
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I can see someone who is an indigenous Mexican who speaks Spanish and zero background in electronics or logic pronouncing it as "zhor."
Xochitl would like a word with you.
And I live in Tuxon.
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And my grandson plays a xylophone. Sure, if you are speaking in another language with different pronunciation conventions, then say it however you like. Somewhere there's probably some language equivalent that sounds nothing like "EXOR", and I doubt if I could pronounce it. But in the English language I think that pronouncing it "zor" is wrong and tells us that you probably don't know what it means.
I Have Spoken.
harerod:
Quote from: Bassman59 on Today at 08:42:19 pm
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And I live in Tuxon.
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German native speaker here. You pronounse zat
[tʌksˈɔn], right? :-DD
The letter X may be pronounced in three ways in the English language: [gs], [ks] and even [z]. So, a person who doesn't know the origin "exclusive or" might settle on [z], as in xylophone.
So - who wants to say [ˈɪksˈoɾ]? ;)
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TimFox:
Xylophone comes from the Greek ξύλον = xylon for wood, and other similar transliterations (through Latin) include xenophobic and xerography (the Greeks were ahead of their time). Exclude (and its other forms) enters English directly from Latin sometime around 1400. I believe that in Latin there is no initial "X" (except for words borrowed from Greek), but "ex" is a common prefix.
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