In Portuguese, the letter X doesn't have the sound "s". It's "sh" instead.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Therefore, whenever I read the name "xultar", it sounds in my head as "shultar", not "sultar".

I felt I had a duty to clarify that. :hi:

[LeftinOH]

1. No xit?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Aw, xut up. -nt

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. Don't you mean "Aw, XTFU"? nt

[redqueen]

2. So what about Xavier?

Is that name supposed to start with an h sound? Or sh? Or x?

I always want to say it like Javier.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Shah-vee-AIR. -nt

[redqueen]

6. So like Javier but with a sh sound.

Cool.

The X-Men movies messed me up on that name. I don't think I'd ever heard that pronunciation before.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Many Brazilians say "Shees-Men". -nt

[Bucky]

15. Actually, we have a lot of "she-men" in Houston, too.

The ones I've met seem pretty nice.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. Xure you did. n/t

[Lilith Velkor]

8. In English, it can sound like either "ks" or "z".

So in my head, it's more like "zultar."

[yewberry]

9. I have a Brazilian Portugese question.

My Brazilian friends always had trouble with my name (which starts with an R) but then inserted an R sound at the beginning of words stating with H (hrusband, hrospital, Hre-Man). Any idea of why that might be?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. The soft H sound is alien to Brazilians.

The closest thing is the French-style R sound.

[yewberry]

12. Thank you.

I've always wondered about that.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. You're welcome.

:hi:

[yewberry]

16. *snicker*

Actually, Rachel has always sounded more like Leecha than anything else to my New England ears.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. By the way, ask your Brazilians friends to say...

"The three thinkers thought this through thoroughly."

Then sit back and enjoy.

[Bucky]

17. Until I met a guy named Joao, I never knew how to pronounce it

It's kinda like "Zhwaw(n)" with a silent N like the French use in Jean