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Hi Ardith,

03.10.2024 3:58:10, Ardith Hinton
 wrote:

 AH>           I guess if I'd never seen your name written down &/or you
 AH> asked me to approximate it phonetically I might spell it "A leg ZAN
 AH> der".  

There's only a slight difference. I believe this is because "Alexander"
is a Greek originated name which came into English via French, and the
French tend to pronounce "x" consonants mostly as [gz]. Russian
inherited it directly from Greek so we pronounce it the Greek way as
[ks].


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