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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

English speakers most often use a Z sound for an X at the start of the word, like xenon and xylophone. I'm ignorant of how it would be pronounced by speakers of other languages, but all my conversations about the band (all three of them, lol) have been in English

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

But in Afrikaans it'd be a ks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

In German x is pronounced ks or kz