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How do you pronounce "executor"?

Open uliwitness opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

What the title says. Just curious where the emphasis is. Is it like the job, exECutor, or like the verb EXecutor, or exeCUtor, or what?

uliwitness avatar Jun 02 '24 19:06 uliwitness

If I were spelling it out, it'd be kind of like: egg zeck you tor with equally stressed syllables and not quite "egg" in the beginning. The US pronunciation on the Cambridge Dictionary site is close. I've recorded a voice memo of me saying it, but transferring it off my phone is a PITA and I'm in the middle of something now, so I'll try to get that cropped and uploaded later.

ctm avatar Jun 02 '24 19:06 ctm

I'd say, /ex/ecu/tor/, as in one who executes things. I remember trying Executor, and it not being able to handle Resedit, lol.

lighth7015 avatar Jun 03 '24 09:06 lighth7015

If I were spelling it out, it'd be kind of like: egg zeck you tor with equally stressed syllables and not quite "egg" in the beginning. The US pronunciation on the Cambridge Dictionary site is close.

Thank you!

uliwitness avatar Jun 03 '24 19:06 uliwitness

Some slight necroposting here... The Executor 2.0 CD from 1996 comes with an FAQ that actually answers this question:

Question 1.7. What is the correct pronunciation?

Ig-ZEK-yu-tor

So, basically the same way you'd refer to the executor of a legal will.

rhetorica avatar Jul 19 '25 05:07 rhetorica