Talk:×

Pronunciation of multiplication-related senses

See:

• Wiktionary:Tea_room/2019/June#Reading_of_multiplication_sign_×#Translingual_in_English (for 2 x 4) pronounced "by"(?)
• Wiktionary:Tea room/2014/October#Pronunciation_of_× (for 10x, 2x the capacity, etc) pronounced "x"

- -sche (discuss) 10:09, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Logical conjunction

It's the logical conjunction according to the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_conjunction --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:36, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Pronunciation of hybrid cultivars etc.

@Chuck Entz, DCDuring: Tell us, please, how the sign is read aloud in these contexts! Even if I were to take recorded botany lessons right now you still should be surer about it, so it is easier, more efficient and more reliable to ask. Fay Freak (talk) 21:23, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

I would just pronounce it as the letter "x", but I can't say that's how anyone else might say it. Taxonomic names are notoriously variable in actual usage- no two people pronounce them exactly the same. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:32, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Some possibilities are the pronunciations of by, cross, and x (all mentioned is discussion at Reddit, as well as the possibility of not pronouncing it at all). A horticulture site has it that Forsythia ×intermedia is pronounced like "hybrid species Forsythia intermedia. I cannot yet be sure of prevailing practice(s), but Missouri Botanical Garden ("MoBot") and Dave's Gardens both use x ("ex") in their pronunciations (eg. http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=291997&isprofile=1&basic=Forsythia). I haven't checked whether any other hybrids listed there use the "ex" pronunciation. DCDuring (talk) 22:18, 14 August 2022 (UTC)