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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Am I alone here...
...or does it bug the hell out of anyone else that no-one in the X-Men films knows how to pronounce "Xavier" correctly?
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:03, 10 replies)
Zay-vee-ur innit?
It is, scientifically speaking, the most poncy name in all of Christendom.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:06, closed)
How do they pronounce it in the X-men films?

(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:11, closed)
Ex-eh-vee-ur

(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:15, closed)
Ahh
That's like X-saviour..

Hmm ent dat smart?
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:17, closed)
Egg-saviour :)

(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:18, closed)
You'd think ...
Xavier should know how to pronounce his own name
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:18, closed)
Like girls called Siobhan
who insist on pronouning it See Oh Ban?
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:23, closed)
Advice in Viz was to name your daughter Shivorn
But insist everyone pronounce it "See-oh-bann"
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:29, closed)
Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State, couldn't pronounce his own name, either.
Or his parents thought it was most amusing to name their son after part of the intestinal tract.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:44, closed)

I usually pronounce an x at the start of a word as cs - no idea why, or whether I'm right or wrong - probably my mother's fault.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:21, closed)

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