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How different European countries pronounce the X in Mexico

author: Udzu/reddit, added on: 2025-06-12


How different European countries pronounce the X in Mexico

Udzu:

A cursory check suggests a world map would look fairly similar: red in Spanish America, orange in Brazil and China, and blue nearly everywhere else.

I wonder why no other so few languages use Mexico's own pronunciation, even when they have the Spanish x sound. Any ideas?

Update: turns out Estonian does actually pronounce Mexico (=Mehhiko) with an h, unlike Finnish (=Meksiko), as does Slovene (=Mehika), unlike the other Yugoslav languages, oops! Fixed version.


Collection: pronunciation - Tags: pronunciation, letters, europe, mexico - Source: reddit.com