To ask exactly how you pronounce MX?

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And does anyone actually use it?

I'm going to start demanding to be addressed by a throat click from the Xhosa language.

I don't pronounce it. I'm not using it. I'm not engaging in this nonsense. I've had enough.

Why do I even need a title?

Just abolish them all if you want equality.

They are only useful in a professional capacity if you are advertising your qualification.

I tried to use it for several years, before all this gender nonsense kicked off. I don't see why one's title should indicate one's sex. But ... what with general incomprehension, the need to say "emmex" and the fact that only women were using it, I reverted to Ms which is tricky enough.

If I'm ever unfortunate enough to have to take an enby's full name, I shall make sure to pronounce it "muuuuhx".

Mushroom? - Oh, yes, "mush" would be good!

iklboo

I thought it was an abbreviation for mastectomy.

Most people nowadays say "yourself" instead of sir or madam.

Mks, kinda like Ms but with a x sound instead of the s, or at least that's how the Mx I know pronounces it.

1010 - My first thought was Roman Numerals

How are people managing to say it without a vowel sound? I would say Mix/Miks, how would you say Mks?

Most people nowadays say "yourself" instead of sir or madam.

Eh? How does that work?

"Good evening yourself, table for two?"

I’d be more on board with doing away with titles altogether than creating ever more ridiculous ones to represent every iteration of a persons self concept

Indeed. I stopped using a title a few years ago. Some computer systems insist on the box being filled, so I choose Professor or whatever is not sex specific.

the teacher at my sons school, inexplicably pronounces it as Miss
so I spent ages working out how to address Mx 'Jones' and went with a sort of Mc sound like the Scottish names and they corrected me saying its pronounced 'Miss'

Most people nowadays say "yourself" instead of sir or madam.

I’m trying to think of a sentence where that would work and failing. Any examples?

So, for a letter I’m not going to start writing ‘Dear Yourself’ as that is just ridiculous. ‘Yes yourself, no yourself, three bags full yourself’ doesn’t work either. And if I was in, say, a restaurant and the waiter referred to me as ‘yourself’ instead of ‘madam’ I’d think there was something wrong with them (‘This way please yourself’; ‘Would you like to see the wine list yourself?’; ‘Are you ready for the bill yourself?’ it just doesn’t work!). And Oliver Twist asking ‘Please yourself, I want some more?’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it! (And yes that is the correct quote, I checked!)

M pronounced insufferable and X pronounced bore.

I like that 😂

Dave

Do you know how to use google ? Just that a quick google of how to pronounce it would answer your question.

I’m trying to think of a sentence where that would work and failing. Any examples?

What about "Yourself Richard Branson"? 😁

This is a discussion board

Mx, usually pronounced /ˈmɪks/, /ˈmʌks/ or /məks/ (muks or miks),[1][2] is an English language neologistic honorific that does not indicate gender. It was developed as an alternative to common gendered honorifics, such as Mr. and Ms., in the early 1980s

So says wiki

Early 1980s, no not a new thing

OP, with apologies for being a bore, Mx is not a pronoun, it's a title or honorific. Pronouns are the she/her/hers he/him/his they/them/theirs bit.

I pronounce it Mux and I’ve never been corrected.

Wiki says 1980's!! Who developed it? It must have only been used in tiny tiny circles back then. I mixed in woke circles back then (yes they were tossers) and NEVER heard it.

And yes you are right, it is not a pronoun.

I think everyone in the world should be called eugine and there should be no titles.

I presumed Mux.