Is it "Breggzit" or "Breksit?"

Factual Questions
1

See query.

Like what prompted a previous query on Chic-Fil-A (sp?) which prompted disbelief, I don’t listen to radio or tv news, and have never heard it. (It’s never come up in conversation.)

[Why’ll we’re at it, is it “hard-g-if” or "“jif?”] /snark

2

It’s Brexit, as in British Exit. And the pronunciation would depend on how you pronounce “exit.”

3

Thanks.

As to your warning, luckily I have the 114 posts in the thread **In Excelsis Deo: How to pronounce it and what does it mean? **In Excelsis Deo: How to pronounce it and what does it mean? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board to study.

4

Totally iconoclastic: in natural speech, I say “egg-zit” 99% of the time. Yet, in my own mind, coming out of my own mouth, “Bregg-zit” sounds totally wrong, and “Breck-sit” sounds exactly right. :smack:

Language … whaddaya gonna do?

5

Same here. I’m sure there are phonetic grooves in English that prompt it.

I wonder if they took a poll what the majority of English speakers would pronounce it, without thinking of the etymology. (If I get my ass in gear I might create one in whatever SD forum has polls.)

I believe the “-exit” suffix is now Euro lingua franca, first Greece, then Britain, and I just read about Frexit.

6

Well shit, I’ve been saying “The Great Brexcape” in my head. Now I just feel foolish.

7

How about “The Great Brexcapade”?