ZAVIER

They did it again.  The color commentator for Fox Sports doing the XU basketball game last week, referred to Xavier as Ex-avier or Eggs-avier (he mumbled a bit).   I really shouldn't care but, you know, I'm a logophile and an orthographist.

I actually have a solution for this problem.  It would suit me since I'm not really a fan of the school.  The University could change it's name to Zavier University.  Not only would that solve the pronunciation problem, it would distinguish it from other XU's in New Orleans, Louisiana and Aruba and Chicago and Antigonish, Nova Scotia and Kolkata, India and Bhubaneswar, India and Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines and surely many more.  I bet most of the students wouldn't even notice.

Zavier would be one-of-a-kind.   They could stand out in a crowd.  You know, the people who rate movies did away with the X and replaced it with NC-17.  Xavier could embrace the Z without a problem.  They might even get Zerox and the City of Zenia to follow suit.  Wouldn't you rather plant some zenias next year or learn how to play the zylophone?   More people who hate Trump could spell Zenophobe correctly on Twitter.

This is dead serious.  I think I might really have something here and I don't think Saint Francis would care. 
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ps:  This entry has caused my spell-check to have a coronary.