A friend of mine pronounced my name in an odd fashion. He claimed he pronounced it properly according to the rules of English.
Made me curious. How do you pronounce Tyxis?
A friend of mine pronounced my name in an odd fashion. He claimed he pronounced it properly according to the rules of English.
Made me curious. How do you pronounce Tyxis?
English is a language where people pronounce tomayto and tomahto, and both are correct. Especially for names, there isn't really a right or wrong, as long as you're saying some variation of how the letters should sound.
Tike-sis is how I would say it, but Ticks-sis is correct too.
tai-sis
10char
^..............10chars @ 'ticks-iss'
how is it supposed to be pronounced?
Ticks-iss. I think that's how x works in that situation, but honestly, I'm just guessing. I'm much better with the written word.
"t_hIk.s@s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-sampa)
Vowels are short in syllables with a coda (final consonant/s). Tysis (ty-sis) would be 'tie' (long i), but Tyxis (tik-sis) is 'tick' (short i).
Yes, English does have rules. The problem is that we haven't had a big spelling reform in the last few hundred years and the language has, uh, changed a bit in that time >_> But the system still works (more or less).
He's not, the x is like an s sound... (xylophone).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X#Usage
There's a bit under English that makes me think it's Ticks-iss.