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Kormashka Posted 5 years ago
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Why many words with X have also C after it?

hi. can anybody explain, why many words with X have also C after it? Like Excel or Exception etc? We spend X like ks. Why do we add C?

  

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kormashka hi. can anybody explain, why many words with X have also C after it? Like Excel or Exception etc?

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  • kormashka hi.
  • can anybody explain, why many words with X have also C after it?
  • Like Excel or Exception etc?
  • We spend X like ks.
  • Why do we add C?
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kormashkahi. can anybody explain, why many words with X have also C after it? Like Excel or Exception etc? We spend X like ks. Why do we add C?

We don't add "c". "Ex-" is a prefix, and if the root begins with "c", this is what you get.

English spelling is not phonetic. OK, it's somewhat phonetic. But we don't mind if the spelling has little bearing on

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kormashkamany words with X have also C after it

Yes. The 'x' is the end of the prefix 'ex'. The 'c' is the first letter of the root. ex-cel; ex-ception; ex-cite; ex-ceed; etc.

Words with this pattern are borrowed from Latin. In classical Latin the 'c' was always pronounced as /k/, so in its original version in Latin, there would not have been two

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