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From: "Carlos Thompson" <chlewey@myrealbox.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:13:20 -0500
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Jorge Llambias wrote:

> >German ch, Russian kh, Spanish j or x (or g before e or i),
>
> Spanish x is normally pronounced ks, as in English.
> The only word I know where x is pronounced like j is "Mexico",
> which most non-Mexicans write as "Mejico" anyway.
> (Maybe Texas/Tejas is another such word, but in this case
> the pronunciation varies along with the orthography.)

Well, many place names in Mexico as well: Xalapa, Oaxaca, etc. and some
personal names like Xavier and Ximena.

-- Carlos Th



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