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In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to discuss how to pronounce the letter X.
The letter X can be pronounced 2 different ways: voiced or unvoiced. If it's voiced, it's the [gz] sound. To make the G, the back of the tongue stretches up and touches the soft palate. As it does that, the tip of the tongue stays here, behind the bottom front teeth for the Z sound, so when I release the back part of the tongue, the front part of the tongue is ready to go. ggzz. Unvoiced, it's the [ks] sound, so the position is exactly the same. Only this time, instead of making a sound with the the vocal cords, we just use air to make the sound, no vibration of the cords, kkss.
Let's look at some examples.
[ks] mix, extra, oxygen
[gz] exam, exist, exit
There is one word that I can think of that's an exception, and that is a word we borrow from French. The word is 'beaux' -- plural of 'beau'. Even though we use the French spelling for the plural, we use an American English pronunciation: beaux. So, it's a Z: beaux.
There it is, the pronunciation of the letter X.
That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
Quy tắc phát âm chữ X trong tiếng Anh
In English orthography, x is typically pronounced as the voiceless consonant cluster /ks/ when it follows the stressed vowel, and the voiced consonant /ɡz/ when it precedes the stressed vowel (e.g. 'exam'), or when it precedes a silent 'h' and an accented vowel ('exhaust').[2] Before 'i' or 'u' it can also be pronounced /kʃ/ or /ɡʒ/ for example, in the words 'sexual' and 'luxury'[citation needed], respectively: these result from earlier /ksj/ and /ɡzj/. It also makes the sound /kʃ/ in words ending in -xion (typically used only in British-based spellings of the language; American spellings tend to use -ction). Word-final 'x' is always /ks/ (e.g. 'ax'/'axe') except in loan words such as 'faux' (see French, below).
In abbreviations, it can represent "trans-" (e.g. XMIT for transmit, XFER for transfer), "cross-" (e.g. X-ing for crossing; XREF for cross-reference), "Christ" as shorthand for the labarum (e.g. Xmas for Christmas; Xian for Christian), the "Crys" in Crystal (XTAL), or various words starting with "ex" (e.g. XL for extra large; XOR for exclusive-or).
There are very few English words that start with X – the least amount of any letter. Many of the words that do start with X are either standardized trademarks (Xerox) or acronyms (XC). No words in the Basic English vocabulary begin with 'X', but it occurs in words beginning with other letters.
X is the third least common letter in English, with a frequency of about 0.15% in words. It is, however, more frequent than Q and Z.
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