Xavier

supergrover · Guru

Xavier

Juanita · Guru

I say X-avier

3s_a_crowd · Guru

zavier

Alison · Guru

Zavier

daisy · Guru

i say "igs-avier" but i also worked for someone named xavier and he pronounced it javier (he was columbian), so now when i see it, javier comes to mind first.

Picture-Perfect · Guru

X-avier here.

Dddiii · Guru

daisy wrote:

i say "igs-avier" but i also worked for someone named xavier and he pronounced it javier (he was columbian), so now when i see it, javier comes to mind first.

Me too (maybe a NY thing? LOL). At first I wanted to say X-avier, but when I saw your reply, I realized I definitely say it more with a g than "ex".

Sara · Guru

zavier

daisy · Guru

Dddiii wrote:

daisy wrote:

i say "igs-avier" but i also worked for someone named xavier and he pronounced it javier (he was columbian), so now when i see it, javier comes to mind first.

Me too (maybe a NY thing? LOL). At first I wanted to say X-avier, but when I saw your reply, I realized I definitely say it more with a g than "ex".

yeah i was going to say "ex" too but that really doesnt capture the sound, right???

Dddiii · Guru

daisy wrote:

Dddiii wrote:

daisy wrote:

i say "igs-avier" but i also worked for someone named xavier and he pronounced it javier (he was columbian), so now when i see it, javier comes to mind first.

Me too (maybe a NY thing? LOL). At first I wanted to say X-avier, but when I saw your reply, I realized I definitely say it more with a g than "ex".

yeah i was going to say "ex" too but that really doesnt capture the sound, right???

egs-actly ;) LOL

kdrew · Guru

I went to a high school called Xavier.

We would say zavier but my aunts who went there 20 years before me call it x-avier.

Corey · Guru

x-avier, imo.

CoffeeQueen · Guru

Dddiii wrote:

daisy wrote:

i say "igs-avier" but i also worked for someone named xavier and he pronounced it javier (he was columbian), so now when i see it, javier comes to mind first.

Me too (maybe a NY thing? LOL). At first I wanted to say X-avier, but when I saw your reply, I realized I definitely say it more with a g than "ex".

I say it more with a g sound too and not X. Hmmm

Sonya · Guru

definitely ex-ave-i-er here.

Chickie · Senior Member

My nephews middle name is that and he pronounces it x-avier

Cuppycake · Guru

Both ways are equally common here. I don't have a preference, and when I see it, I'm torn 50/50, on which way to say it, lol. So how's that for being zero help.

sbucking · Guru

daisy wrote:

i say "igs-avier"

Me too.

Juni · Guru

more with a g sound here too. :)

Juanita · Guru

now that i say it out loud, it sounds more like "egs-avier"

Robin · Guru

Odd one out here.

Henry went to Scouts with a kid named Xavier.

It was pronounced Hav-ee-ay.

They were Spanish.

ETA: Maybe his was spelled Javier. Idk. If not with the "H" sound, then the "egs" way.

-- Edited by Robin on Friday 13th of November 2009 06:48:49 PM