I notice that the Wikipedia article on Brexit doesn't yet give pronunciation guidance for this word. Is anyone out there counting how many people say /breksIt/ and how many /bregzit/? I get the feeling that the latter is gaining ground within the BBC.
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Joe
1/20/2017 12:45:19 pm
I haven't read any quantitative work on the subject, but two places that are good sources for these types of questions are Language Log and Geoff Lindsey's blog. Sure enough, they both do, with nice insights. Here's the link to Geoff's (which has more detail in the post):
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Peter
1/20/2017 05:10:41 pm
Thanks for the links. Good to know that this is being watched!
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