# Is it "Breggzit" or "Breksit?"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 24, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221 "2016-06-24T12:34:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221/1 "2016-06-24T12:34:26Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221/2 "2016-06-24T12:44:50Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221/3 "2016-06-24T13:21:03Z")

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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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=230507) to study.

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221/4 "2016-06-24T13:36:58Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> It’s Brexit, as in British Exit. And the pronunciation would depend on how you pronounce “exit.”

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?

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221/5 "2016-06-24T13:54:46Z")

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> [@bordelond](#):
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> 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…

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.

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**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221/6 "2016-06-24T14:04:59Z")

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

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-breggzit-or-breksit/758221/7 "2016-06-24T14:42:07Z")

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How about “The Great Brexcapade”?