{"id":909,"date":"2008-11-14T11:35:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T15:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=909"},"modified":"2008-11-14T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T15:35:14","slug":"pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/11\/14\/pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone asks “how do you pronounce XO<\/a>? Is it<\/p>\n

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  1. like “ch’o” in\u00a0 “xocon” (nahuatl)<\/li>\n
  2. like “so” in “roxxor” (1337)<\/li>\n
  3. like “zo” in “xoom”<\/li>\n
  4. like “show” (chinese)<\/li>\n
  5. “ixo” (spanish)<\/li>\n
  6. “sideways xo-person”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To answer you all at once, I have advice best embodied in a poem<\/a>.\u00a0 It is a work in progress that has been passed from person to person for generations… starting perhaps with G. Nolst Trenit\u00e9<\/span><\/strong> (<\/span>1870-1946).\u00a0 Points in contention are in bold, but the advice at the end is timeless.
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    Everyone asks “how do you pronounce XO? Is it like “ch’o” in\u00a0 “xocon” (nahuatl) like “so” in “roxxor” (1337) like “zo” in “xoom” like “show” (chinese) “ixo” (spanish) “sideways xo-person” To answer you all at once, I have advice best embodied in a poem.\u00a0 It is a work in progress that has been passed from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-eF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}