How to pronunce "heex"?

Hi all,

this may sounds silly, but as a non-native English speaker,
I find it difficult to pronunce the word “heex”.

Example sentence:
“We have to consider the time needed to convert old eex templates to heex”

How do you pronunce that?

Cheers!

I read heex as /hɪks/, and eex as /ɪks/.

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Ouch those sounds like the same to my ears.

I could use sigil h and sigil e maybe :slight_smile:

Ah ya in that case you could perhaps say: “We have to consider the time needed to convert the traditional templates into the component templates” and leave the matter of the actual file extension out of what gets spoken.

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Maybe /hɪks/ for heex and “embedded elixir” for eex?

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I recommend ⟨iːks⟩ for eex and ⟨hiː↓ks⟩ for heex, where ↓ denotes an ingressive sound (inward airstream).

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It’s pronounced heeeeeeeks with an [unnecessary] apologetic inflection.

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I mean, I appreciate all the phonetic symbols and tricks, but this is what I wanted :smiley:

Cheers!

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