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Enough is enough (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by cuerdo to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's rarely used phonetically the same as xylophone. Usually it makes the [ks] sound, it only ever makes the [z] sound at the beginning of words. X-ray is actually much more in line with the typical phonetic representation in English.