I've always pronounced it Ex-zay-vee-er due to the Cabbage Patch Kids when I was little, the boy (or whoever he was) was called Xavier, if I remember correctly. Either way, his name for some reason was on the back ends. :P
Nope, I had not heard of X-Men until my teens when my sisters watched the cartoon, I watched a few episodes back them but really didn't remember any of the characters. I think Cabbage Patch Kids had a cartoon when I was a kid, so I likely heard it there...or when you do the 'adoption pledge' that came with your doll, mum would've read the name off like that.
I think it might be because the most common way of referring to it is "Saint FX". Otherwise I would expect the French pronunciation since it's in the Maritimes.
...but then, I'd pronounce it that way because of X-Men: The Animated Series. That actually used to bug the heck out of me and my friend when we watched X-Men: Evolution; a lot of the students pronounced it Zay-vee-er and to us, it felt like they were completely dropping the "X." And let's face it, if it's X-Men, you should be pronouncing the X!
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Unless I'm talking X-men and then it's X-avier because that's how I am used to hearing it.
The third pronunciation would be for Javier. :)
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I didn't know that when people say the University's name they do start it with the "ex" sound.
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I guess the first option, "Zay-vee-er," is pretty close, but when I say it there's only two syllables. "Zave-yer."
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