{"id":88,"date":"2007-09-25T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=88"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:09:29","slug":"the-sound-of-x-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-sound-of-x-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of X (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a previous post<\/a>, I discussed the sound of the letter ‘X’<\/b> in Portuguese. This polyphonic letter can trip up many non-native Portuguese speakers, and there are no hard and fast rules regarding its pronunciation.<\/p>\n

In this post I’d like to show some more common uses of the letter X<\/b> as well as some words that include the letter that you might see frequently.<\/p>\n

The first example always makes me smile. In Brazil it is very common to see a X-Burguer<\/b> on the menu of a restaurant or bar. When I first saw this I imagined that the particular establishment I was in was featuring some sort of ‘extreme’ sandwich, perhaps with some daredevilish combination of pimenta and mayo! Alas it turns out the the X-Burguer, unlike the X-Games and the X-Prize, is quite tame; the X<\/b> is short for ‘cheese!’ The letter X in Portuguese is pronounced by itself as ‘shis<\/b>,’ and so ‘X-Burguer’ literally is pronounced something like ‘cheeseburger<\/b>‘ in English!<\/p>\n

Here are some words that start with X<\/b> that are pretty common.<\/p>\n