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how do you pronounce “ilxor”

Options explained by me in this link: https://voca.ro/1esZn8I2xOHf you can thank Old Lunch for the abominable option 2

Poll Results

Option	Votes
eye-ell-ex-or	71
ilksor	22
some other shit (explain in post)	2
eelk-zor	1

― scampo italiano (gyac), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:01 (four years ago)

unfortunately gyac your pronunciation of eelk-zor was surprisingly persuasive

― not right at all (rob), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:02 (four years ago)

ilksuh

― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:03 (four years ago)

Behead all those who vote for anything other than option #1.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:03 (four years ago)

"Alone Again Or."

― clemenza, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:04 (four years ago)

xp
typical eye-ell-ex-or savagery

― not right at all (rob), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:05 (four years ago)

Contrary to Popular Belief, the Truth Is Not Relative.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:05 (four years ago)

Behead all those who vote for anything other than option #1.

Otm, can’t believe I’m agreeing with you

― scampo italiano (gyac), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:05 (four years ago)

The capital punishment I had in mind was the guillotine btw, to keep proceedings as humane as possible.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:07 (four years ago)

Throw in a few tanks and we may yet find peace

― scampo italiano (gyac), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:09 (four years ago)

I would simply never pronounce it

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:10 (four years ago)

coward

― not right at all (rob), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:10 (four years ago)

Ilk-sore

― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:15 (four years ago)

Or Il-ksore, I don't mind

― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:15 (four years ago)

Behead all those who vote for anything other than option #1.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:03 (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

absolutely otm

― imago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:15 (four years ago)

how do you people pronounce FUXXOR ffs?

― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:16 (four years ago)

imago i'm disappointed

also: wouldn't it be cool if there was a way to embed vocaroo links?

― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:16 (four years ago)

fucksore

― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:16 (four years ago)

fuck-sore

― scampo italiano (gyac), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:16 (four years ago)

the prosecution rests your honour

― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:17 (four years ago)

I pronounce it like option 1 eye-ell-ex-or, except gyac pronounces the "or" like "er" - as in "'er indoors", whereas I go more for the sound at the end of "condor"

― peace, man, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:17 (four years ago)

oh no

― scampo italiano (gyac), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:18 (four years ago)

Ill-Egg-Zur

― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:18 (four years ago)

Ill-Shore, perhaps?

― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:19 (four years ago)

I say "elixir", exactly, always, it's the most appealing collection of phonemes that the world implies and the homophone is nice

FUXXOR

"fucks 'er", but I never say this word

― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:37 (four years ago)

Behead all those who vote for anything other than option #1.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul)

As we all know, I am against violence on the boards. However, I must begrudgingly agree with this stance.

― emil.y, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:37 (four years ago)

*word, not world obv xp

― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:38 (four years ago)

The first is about right but it's very truncated (in light of how few letters there are). I say it fast and mostly eliminate the gap between the ell and the ex. The O is also somewhat exaggerated.

So perhaps it's more like I'll/exOr or IlexOR.

― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:39 (four years ago)

One-Fif-Tee-Ten-Ze-Ro-Arrrrrr

― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:42 (four years ago)

eye-ell-ex-or

do y'all pronounce "ilx" like "ilks," "ilm" like it rhymes with "film," and "ile" like it's a river in egypt?

― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:48 (four years ago)

There’s a clip fella

― scampo italiano (gyac), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:48 (four years ago)

ɪlˈliksər

― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:49 (four years ago)

Behead all those who vote for anything other than option #1.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), donderdag 17 september 2020 17:03 (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The right answer here is ilksor. It'd be different if it was just eye-ell-ex, but since it's not, it's ilksor.

I prefer the guillotine btw.

― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:52 (four years ago)

Sleep, that's where I'm an eye'll-exor

― kinder, Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:52 (four years ago)

For (most) American speakers:

i-l-x 'er: /aɪ ɛl ɛksɜɹ/
ilk-sir: /ɪlksɜɹ/
ilk-sore: /ɪlksoɹ/

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― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:02 (four years ago)

oh yes, and Old Lunch gives a beautiful example of the pin/pen merger in Southern English:

eelk-sir: /i:lksɜɹ/

― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:06 (four years ago)

it's ilksor

May God have mercy on your soul and that of the rest of your… ilk.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:07 (four years ago)

I L X (the 0r is silent)

― Kim, Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:09 (four years ago)

I L X (the 0r is silent)

― Kim, Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:09 (four years ago)

the only time I say this to myself is when I'm spelling it out to do a google search for a thread

― 这是我的显示名称 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:11 (four years ago)

(the pin/pen merger is supposed to be just before nasal consonants but I don't see why it can't precede a liquid)

― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:12 (four years ago)

I think option 1 in the link has the last syllable wrong. It's "or," not "er."

I ell ex ore. Not I ell ex er.

― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:17 (four years ago)

The option was discussing the noun as in “fellow ilxor”, fwiw.

― scampo italiano (gyac), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:20 (four years ago)

To protect the trademark ILX should always be used as an adjective, like Lego.

― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:29 (four years ago)

how do you people pronounce FUXXOR ffs?

the key concept in grasping how to pronounce FUXXOR is that one never pronounces FUXXOR aloud and simply elides it as gracefully as possible within one's interior monologue

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:37 (four years ago)

a beautiful example of the pin/pen merger in Southern English:

there actually two variants of this merger ime -- the upper south where both are pronounced "pin" and the lower south where both are pronounced "pen" ... idk my friends from Tennessee and Texas say "pen/pen" and my dad from West Virginia says "pin/pin" (or sometimes pi-uhn/pi-uhn such that it is two syllables)

― sarahell, Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:12 (four years ago)

I can definitely hear that two-syllable southern "pin" in my head. It's subtle, but it's there.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:35 (four years ago)

I doubt I've ever said ilxor, but I imagine it to be ilk-sore.

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 18 September 2020 00:18 (four years ago)

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 30 October 2020 00:01 (four years ago)

My partner refers to it as ick-sell-Orr on the scant occasions when it calls for being said out loud

― or something, Friday, 30 October 2020 00:06 (four years ago)

I read that as "incelcior"

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 30 October 2020 01:00 (four years ago)

wow my ilm poll is a transparent ripoff of this one, i blame being very tired all the time

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 30 October 2020 01:05 (four years ago)

ilxelsior

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 30 October 2020 03:57 (four years ago)

I read that as "incelcior"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 30 October 2020 01:00 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

― or something, Friday, 30 October 2020 07:13 (four years ago)

bumpin'

― mh, Friday, 30 October 2020 22:04 (four years ago)

voted

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 30 October 2020 22:05 (four years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:01 (four years ago)

No. Try again.

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:23 (four years ago)

wtf, who are you people?

― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:41 (four years ago)

But OL, I do not mentally pronounce ilx or ILX as "ilks", but as "eye-ell-eks", based on its stepwise derivation from the acronyms of its many boards using the formula I Love (x), e.g ILM, ILE, ILB, ILF, etc. Once having accepted "eye-ell-eks" as good and proper reflection of its acronymic, rather than phonemic, provenance, it is but a baby step to "eye-ell-eks-or". QED

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:42 (four years ago)

Thank you, fellow eye-ell-ex-ors!

― liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Saturday, 31 October 2020 01:07 (four years ago)

Stop, no, this is so wrong.

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Saturday, 31 October 2020 01:35 (four years ago)

Look, I will accept 'ill-zor' as a compromise, but that's my final offer.

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Saturday, 31 October 2020 01:36 (four years ago)

the dominant culture's gonna dominate, OL. that's what dominant cultures do.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 31 October 2020 01:38 (four years ago)

xp how is eye-ell-ex-or any different from Ill-Egg-Zur

― Dan S, Saturday, 31 October 2020 01:40 (four years ago)

enunciation

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 31 October 2020 01:40 (four years ago)

Dominant culture should be deeply ashamed rn. Sad times. Sad times.

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Saturday, 31 October 2020 01:53 (four years ago)

I’m taking this as a positive omen for Tuesday!

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 31 October 2020 02:47 (four years ago)

Elixir.

Guess I'm wrong

― Mark G, Saturday, 31 October 2020 09:50 (four years ago)

That's a beautiful thought, Mark. It is sad that it is wrong, but what can you do.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 31 October 2020 15:53 (four years ago)

there is no correct way to pronounce ilxor because the x could be anything. the x could contain the set of all letters that have ever existed, for example

― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:11 (four years ago)

it is known

― just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:12 (four years ago)

btw, I Love ILX, because it is a place where I can get away with saying something like "good and proper reflection of its acronymic, rather than phonemic, provenance".

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:15 (four years ago)

So are a proportion of the population reading “GenXers” as “genkserz”

― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:26 (four years ago)

Another gen x problem!

― liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:29 (four years ago)

eye-ell-christ-orz

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:32 (four years ago)

ILX = eye ell ex
ILXor = elixir

eloquio et dignitate

― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:42 (four years ago)

The poll is over now, anything received after the date doesn’t count 😎

― liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:48 (four years ago)

the poll is over
you were with me all the while

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 31 October 2020 16:54 (four years ago)

whereas I go more for the sound at the end of "condor"

Or Falkor.

― peace, man, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 15:05 (four years ago)

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