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.
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.
...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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I didn't know that when people say the University's name they do start it with the "ex" sound.
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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 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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