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A Question About Pronouncing Weird Words

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Hello, maybe you can settle an argument. The internet leaves people trying to spell words a little different, or creating new ones all together. For example, rocks, becomes rox, becomes roxor (said rocks-or)
This leads to my question. ‘Boox’ is the ‘word’ in question. I think it should be said books like in rox, and roxor. (I know roxor isn’t a real word but still..) My friend says it should be said “Boo” and word readers pounce it so. They also have a problem pronouncing things with X in general.
So, how is ‘Boox’ pronounced? If it’s wrong what would you suggest for a silly spelling of the word ‘books’ with some x’s in there.
Thanks for your time with this silly question.
 

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Re: A Question About Pronoucing Weird Words

Try the Urban Dictionary:
Urban Dictionary: roxor
it even has sound!
 
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Re: A Question About Pronoucing Weird Words

This l33t hax0r language began as a written form, so I imagine that there's not much agreement on the pronunciation. I would make the 'oo' sound like 'two'
 
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