From chlewey@myrealbox.com Fri Apr 21 22:10:17 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17105 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2000 05:10:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Apr 2000 05:10:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eniac.cable.net.co) (196.27.25.66) by mta1 with SMTP; 22 Apr 2000 05:10:16 -0000 Received: from chlewey ([216.72.50.29]) by eniac.cable.net.co (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 637-61184U10000L5000S0V35) with SMTP id co for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:12:14 +0500 Message-ID: <007f01bfac19$7a0b8b40$1d3248d8@chlewey> To: References: <20000418153633.94753.qmail@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [lojban] not quite RECORD:x Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:13:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 From: "Carlos Thompson" 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