And yet for a time, a large part of this country did price things in “dix”s (pronounced in English as dicks) as one of several privately issued currencies in common usage and from when we get the Southern region of Dixie. Although ironically given your conversation with a French speaker, these notes were issued by a bank in New Orleans, where they spoke French. “dix” being French for 10 (although pronounced dis).
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Dix in french is pronounced like diss in English. What time period was dix pronounced as dicks?
In English the x at the end of a word is almost always a /ks/ pronunciation. The rare exception is a silent x. The anglophone reading dix written on a French issued monetary note is likely to pronounce it with a hard x, as in fix or exam.