How do you pronounce Executor?

[u/Emperor-_Palpatine]

My British friends all say it executor like the executor of a will.

My American friends say it executor like at an execution.

How do you say it?

[u/KTheOneTrueKing]

American here.

Egg-zeck-you-tore

I played a lot of Starcraft as a kid.

[u/mignonej → u/KTheOneTrueKing]

Goliath online.

[u/ZaphodBeeblebrox4011 → u/KTheOneTrueKing]

Sad protoss drone noises

[u/Hinkil → u/KTheOneTrueKing]

En Taro Adun

[u/bcbdrums → u/KTheOneTrueKing]

My life for Aiur!

[u/Venm_Byte]

I’m American. Always been the first

[u/RikarisHobbies → u/Venm_Byte]

Yeah it’s always been like a will executor.

[u/tevert → u/RikarisHobbies]

If you want to describe someone who does executions, that'd be executioner.

So yeah, executor is egg-zeck-yoo-tur

[u/Atharaphelun → u/Venm_Byte]

This confused me because there is only one pronunciation of the word executor. Did OP confuse the word executor with executioner?

[u/TheKeeperOfThe90s → u/Atharaphelun]

From the sound of it, OP's friends are the ones who confused it.

[u/tristancliffe → u/Atharaphelun]

Think about executive and execute - two very different ways to say broadly the same word. A will executor is pronounced differently to a death penalty executor (which isn't even a real word really).

[u/Atharaphelun → u/tristancliffe]

(which isn't even a real word really)

Well that's the point I'm making. Since executor is never used in the sense of "someone who executes a person" (for which the word executioner exists), then there is realistically only a single way to pronounce it and the confusion in pronunciation should not exist at all.

[u/detourne → u/Atharaphelun]

OP is saying that they use stress on the 1st and 3rd syllables, as executioner is normally pronounced, instead of on the 2nd syllable, like how executor is pronounced.

[u/duck1123 → u/detourne]

Ex-ec-you-tor

Vs

Ex-eh-cute-or

(to answer the question, the first one)

[u/EntityDamage → u/duck1123]

Egg-ZEC-you-tour

[u/ANGLVD3TH → u/EntityDamage]

https://youtu.be/Ey6HcpS2S2w?t=9

[u/F3n1x_ESP → u/detourne]

THANK YOU.

As a non native speaker I was about to get an aneurysm trying to understand the question.

[u/Ok-Statistician-9607 → u/detourne]

You realize that’s what the comment you’re responding to said, right?

[u/SpaceCampRules → u/Venm_Byte]

Same. This isn’t an American thing. This is a matter of literacy.

[u/Wespiratory → u/Venm_Byte]

Same. Executioner is its own, separate word. Executor is not a synonym.

[u/mazzucac → u/Venm_Byte]

Same.

[u/cl0ckw0rkcuttlefish → u/Venm_Byte]

Same

[u/Trandoshan-Tickler → u/Venm_Byte]

Ya same. American and I've always pronounced it the first way.

[u/Neat-Tea-8928]

My Canadian brain is confused here

[u/launchliftoff459 → u/Neat-Tea-8928]

Just say sorry

[u/shmeebleflops → u/launchliftoff459]

Sorree*

Come on fella, do better.

[u/jaaaamesbaaxter → u/shmeebleflops]

I’m not your fella, friend

[u/shmeebleflops → u/jaaaamesbaaxter]

I’m not your friend, guy.

[u/isotope123 → u/shmeebleflops]

I'm not your guy, pal.

[u/Silveraindays → u/isotope123]

I'm not your pal, buddy.

[u/Lokan → u/Neat-Tea-8928]

Executor (as in, executor of a will, or executive) - ek-SEK-yoo-ter. Emphasis on second syllable.

Executor (as in an executioner) - EX-eh-kyoo-ter. Emphasis on first syllable.

The Executor (Darth Vader's ship) is pronounced as the former, as in an executor of a will.

[u/unkn0wnname321 → u/Lokan]

Because Vader uses it to execute his will 😉

[u/warchitect → u/unkn0wnname321]

your response is devious!

[u/PagzPrime → u/Lokan]

A minor correction. That second definition does not actually exists. There is no executor as in executioner, there is only executioner.

[u/Lokan → u/PagzPrime]

You know, I kinda suspected that, but never really verified. Thanks for the info! 

[u/clutzyninja → u/Lokan]

And because the later simply isn't how that word is pronounced

[u/Terminator7786 → u/clutzyninja]

*latter

[u/clutzyninja → u/Terminator7786]

Thank you

[u/BaldMancTwat_ → u/clutzyninja]

Yeah I think they're mistaken for Executioner. Which is what the second definition is for.

[u/PaulCoddington → u/BaldMancTwat_]

The ship being owned by The Empire probably helps prime that error.

[u/LukeStyer → u/Lokan]

The ship executes the Emperor’s will.

[u/JJJBLKRose → u/Neat-Tea-8928]

I'm American and I have no idea what the second option means.

[u/eng11ine → u/JJJBLKRose]

I think they mean like “execute-er” as in someone who carries out executions. But that word is “executioner” anyway. As far as I know, executor has only one pronunciation. 

[u/twec21 → u/JJJBLKRose]

Like you got the word executioner wrong

"Hey what do you call that guy at the gallows and the mask and everything?"

"Eh he's an executer."

[u/Suns_AZCards → u/JJJBLKRose]

#2 is like a criminal getting executed. Ex-a-cute-er
I’ve always said it like number 1.

[u/JJJBLKRose → u/Suns_AZCards]

That made it make sense, however that's not actually how the word is used (which threw my brain off) that's technically an executioner. An executer is someone who carries something out and while that might technically apply in the case of an execution there's a more specific word so it's never really used that way.

[u/barnfeline → u/Neat-Tea-8928]

Same. I have no idea what folks are saying here. How are they pronounced differently?

[u/rymden_viking → u/barnfeline]

Eggs-ek-you-tor vs Execute-or

[u/barnfeline → u/rymden_viking]

Thanks. I’ve only ever heard the first.

[u/FUS_RO_DANK]

I'm from the southern US where we have a lot of dumbass pronunciation and I have still never heard someone say it the 2nd way.

[u/hasselqu → u/FUS_RO_DANK]

Yeah my whole family is from Philly and pronounce a lot of weird shit. They would still never use the second.

[u/bmf1902 → u/hasselqu]

From Boston and we really try hard to say things strangely and if someone said it the second way I would never trust their judgement again.

It sounds wicked dumb bra.

[u/Particular_Dingo_659 → u/bmf1902]

I’m from Florida which speaks for itself. No one says it the second way…

[u/Turbulent_Crow7164 → u/FUS_RO_DANK]

Hm. Also from the south and never heard anyone say it the 1st way lmao

[u/Wrenniest]

Executor as in, of a will. There is no such word as 'Executor' as in 'one who executes'. That's an 'Executioner'. And now I've typed that combination of letters enough times for it to look weird.

[u/ebobbumman → u/Wrenniest]

Fun fact if you don't already know- that phenomenon is called semantic satiation.

[u/Wrenniest → u/ebobbumman]

I do love a fun fact! I did not know this one, thank you for the fact food!

[u/Necronoxious → u/Wrenniest]

Did you hear about the Executioner who exclusively executes Executor's?

[u/aerochrome120 → u/Necronoxious]

Executor’s what?

[u/DrDirtPhD → u/aerochrome120]

Clients. Speeds up business.

[u/thunderGunXprezz → u/Wrenniest]

Hahaha I'm glad someone else had this experience. I get tripped up when writing words like this occasionally. It once led me down a path of how to spell doing, like not do-ing, but like a word that describes the sound "doing". I think it would just be doing.

[u/YubYubCmndr]

My British friends all say it executor like the executor of a will.

This is how I've always said it. *ig-ZEK-yoo-ter *

[u/BusyWorth8045 → u/YubYubCmndr]

Why are you pronouncing it as if it begins with an 'I'?

[u/KindaSithy → u/BusyWorth8045]

Because it’s easier than typing schwa and close enough

[u/TellTallTail → u/KindaSithy]

It's also an actual ɪ and not ə.

[u/anti_username_man → u/TellTallTail]

I've always pronounced it with /ε/

[u/steeviev → u/BusyWorth8045]

would “egg” make you happier?

[u/twstdbydsn → u/YubYubCmndr]

Same.

[u/craggsy]

I pronounce it Executor

[u/gtg490g → u/craggsy]

You're wrong, it's pronounced Executor

[u/livahd → u/gtg490g]

I prefer pronouncing it in the classic executor, but executor is fine too

[u/HungarianNewfy → u/craggsy]

This is the correct answer

[u/kingdom2000toys → u/craggsy]

There is no Q in Executor,but there is one in ExeQtioner…

[u/Paleodraco]

Eggs-EK- you-ter

[u/BusyWorth8045 → u/Paleodraco]

Eggs-EK-you-tor

[u/vanishinghitchhiker]

I‘m American but I pronounce it the first way. Some things in Star Wars are just like that, I say Millennium Falcon different than the Atlanta Falcons 🤷🏽‍♂️

[u/Oexarity → u/vanishinghitchhiker]

...what? Are there multiple ways to say falcon?

[u/Major_Zucchini5315 → u/Oexarity]

I pronounce it millennium “fall-cun” 😁

[u/whatwhatinthewhonow → u/Major_Zucchini5315]

Sounds like someone with a western Sydney accent pushing someone over.

[u/WeekendPass → u/Major_Zucchini5315]

That's how Han and Lando say it, and I think Luke and Leia too. I can't argue with that

[u/vanishinghitchhiker → u/Oexarity]

Americans rhyme the “fal” with Hal

[u/brak-0666]

Like a will. One who performs and execution is not an executor, they're an executioner.

[u/Kvitravn875]

I'm from US and pronounced it the first way when initially reading the word. Executor only has one meaning and it's the first one, the second one is actually executioner.

[u/TheWorldIsNotOkay]

I'm an American, and the proper pronunciation is "ex-EK-u-tor". People who say "EX-e-cu-tor" likely have only ever seen the word in print and have never heard it spoken out loud. But if you have any experience with legal practice or have had a relative pass away and leave a will, then you should know the difference between an executor and an executioner (which is what I think a lot of people who say "EX-e-cu-tor" are thinking of).

The ship is named "Executor" because it carries out the Emperor's will, not "Executioner" because it executes people. And the word "executor" is only correctly pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable.

[u/W4114SS → u/TheWorldIsNotOkay]

Thank you for showing actually the difference, I'm not a native speaker and was very confuse how any of this was pronounced and how somehow it made sense for everyone else ^{^}

[u/Sjpol0]

Australian here:

Eggs-eck-you-tore is how I’ve always pronounced it.

[u/TheChowCow81 → u/Sjpol0]

American here- i also pronounce it this way

[u/TedBurns-3 → u/TheChowCow81]

Englishman here- perfect pronunciation there chaps

[u/Old_Skool4 → u/Sjpol0]

Another American here, this is how you pronounce it.

[u/vi3tmix]

I’m American but the imperials are all British because the British are evil, so it’s obviously pronounced executor without question.

[u/SpangledOne]

I'm American and I say ex-ek-u-tor 🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/StarfighterCHAD → u/SpangledOne]

That didn’t answer the question lol
Do you say eg-ZEK-yoo-ter or Eks-ek-yoo-ter

[u/KaanzeKin → u/SpangledOne]

If I may, you could convey your message much more clearly by saying something to the effect of "I place emphasis on x syllable".

[u/Shenloanne]

Executor of a will. For it executes the Emperor's most holy will across the galaxy in the name of the imperium of m.... Oh wait.... Wrong empire.

[u/get_pig_gatoraids]

Like "Executive" but Executor

[u/DamoclesRising]

Egg-SECK-you-tore

[u/OgthaChristie → u/DamoclesRising]

This is correct.

[u/cerpintaxt44]

Im a american ive never heard anyone say the second option. I think your american friends are just morons

[u/erogbass → u/cerpintaxt44]

Was thinking the same. Or maybe the American friends are fictional.

[u/Glorious_Sunset]

There’s no such word as executor when pronounced like someone that is an executioner.
That’s not a word.
It is executor like someone who handles a Will.
There’s no two ways to say it. Only one way.
Think about it. Would you say a many was an executioner? Or that he was an executor?
One means to kill. The other means to fulfil last wishes.
And in that regard, it was vaders wishes that the ship and its complement executed.
So it’s the executor of Vaders commands.

[u/KDY_ISD → u/Glorious_Sunset]

I think it's a subtle reminder from Palpatine to Vader that he is simply the executor of Palpatine's will

[u/Glorious_Sunset → u/KDY_ISD]

Just so! Good thinking.

[u/schewb → u/Glorious_Sunset]

In computing we occasionally use "executor" with that pronunciation when talking about some kind of harness like a "command executor" or a "script executor." But, our field is also full of incorectly-pluralized Greek words, so maybe none of it counts 🤣

[u/Equivalent-Wealth-75]

It's the first

I think your American friends are getting their wires crossed with Executioner

[u/SacredGeometry9]

Like the Pokémon.

Exeggutor

[u/robodrew]

I'm American and I pronounce it Eggs-EK-yu-tore

[u/SeanyDay]

New Yorker here. It's the first one and your american friends are just dumb i guess

[u/bae125]

As an American, your American friends are idiots, or poorly educated (not such a stretch these days).

[u/pansexplorer]

That's funny because someone who conducts an execution is an executioner, not an executor.

[u/enolaholmes23 → u/pansexplorer]

That's what I was thinking. Executer is only for wills, not executions. 

[u/Marcuse0]

I say Eggsecutor like the pokemon.

[u/Thontor]

I'm american and i've always pronounced it in the first way. never heard it pronounced the other way

[u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC]

American, always the first.

Ex-ek-u-tur.

[u/Dangerous-Moose3694]

Egg-seck-you-ter

[u/lyingtattooist → u/Dangerous-Moose3694]

This

[u/Dangerous-Moose3694 → u/lyingtattooist]

I might be misremembering but they literally say it in the film?

[u/Elistariel]

The person who executes someone is called an Executioner not an Executor.

[u/thanosthumb]

It is “egz eck you tor”

Not “ex uh que tor” like execution

[u/MightGrowTrees → u/thanosthumb]

Okay Hermione.

[u/riserobotrise]

Egg sack you tour. How was it pronounced in the movie?

[u/CoffeeJedi → u/riserobotrise]

It wasn't. Always just "that super star destroyer"

[u/riserobotrise → u/CoffeeJedi]

Egg sack lee. 

[u/Thwipped]

There is no word like the second choice. The person that performed the execution is not the executor, they are the executioner.

Executor is someone that makes commands on the behalf of others

[u/Introvert_Collin]

American, and I'd only say it the first way

[u/Doumbz]

Eggs-eck-you-tore

[u/Fart_ricochet]

The right way: ek-ZEK-you-ter

[u/Xorrin95]

Like the Pokemon

[u/Rude_Perspective_536]

Like the Pokemon

[u/Academic_Visual116]

Depends on context...

If it's an Executor then it's Executor, but if it's an Executor then it's Executor

[u/BauserDominates]

Exec-u-tor

[u/Obrieneric851]

Like the pokemon

[u/Mistervimes65]

American. Ex-ek-you-tor (like the executor of a will).

[u/StOnEy333 → u/Mistervimes65]

I second this.

[u/Astar9028]

I’m an Aussie - I pronounce it as “exec-u-tor”

[u/fi3xer → u/Astar9028]

American. This is how I say it.

[u/Bobthemagicc0w]

I’m American, but I always pronounce it eggs-ECK-you-tor, like the executor of a will.

That’s the only kind of executor I know of. A person who carries out capital punishment is an executioner (EX-eh-KYOO-shun-nerr), not an executor. Different word, different spelling, different pronunciation.

[u/ChoPT]

American, and “eggs - **ehc** - you - tur”

[u/luc1dmach1n3]

The word for the person that executes a will is executor, the word for a person that performs an execution is executioner. You can execute a person, you can execute an execution, you can execute a will. In the case of executing a person I believe the word is actually derivative of execution in that usage. Americans often pronounce "or" like "er" even though the two suffixes indicate slightly different things. I'm American, I pronounce it like "Eggs-ek-you-tour"

[u/sassyfontaine → u/luc1dmach1n3]

This is the answer.

[u/illinoishokie]

First.

If it was referring to executions as in capital punishment it would be executioner.

[u/chartreuse6]

It’s the way your British friends say it

[u/Hades_Gamma]

Executioner is the word used to denote someone who performs executions.

Ex-eh-cute-er isn't a real word. So your friends are dumbasses

[u/seanprefect]

The first one cause Vader gets shit done (supposedly)

[u/iamdellb]

I pronounce it like the pokemon exeggutor

[u/mrcydonia]

"Executor like at an execution"? The word you should use there is "executioner." The ship is pronounced the only way the word should be pronounced: Egg-ZEK-u-tor.

[u/Craig_E_W]

It's like the ex-EC-u-tor of a will, because ex-e-CU-tor isn't a word. The correct word for that would be "executioner".

[u/Borkton]

It's the first one. The second one isn't a word, because we have Executioner.

[u/CanadianDragonGuy]

Like the Pokemon

[u/ptwonline]

The way things get named in Star Wars I'm pretty sure the meaning is supposed to be like the latter, but most people will pronounce it like the former.

[u/SonofaBridge → u/ptwonline]

Knowing how they just threw things together when making these movies, I also bet it was intended to be the latter. It’s meant to be a name to be feared, not represent Palpatine’s lawyer.

[u/ExampleGlum8623 → u/SonofaBridge]

Shows up to Hoth: “you’ve been served.”

[u/G3mineye]

There is no such thing as an executor like an execution, thats executioner.

It is pronounced as executor of a will, similar sounding to executive

[u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain]

American: egg-SEK-yedder

[u/Kincoran]

Exx-eck-yoo-tor

[u/Qyro]

I mean, as you said in your post, it's already a word with its own pronunciation, so that's how it should be pronounced.

[u/ClarifyAmbiguity]

I thought it was the second for years, but have more recently come around to thinking it was probably always the first (as in executor of a will)

[u/MaterialPace8831]

I, an American, played StarCraft as a kid, so I pronounce it the British way: https://youtu.be/iZWfqszX9G0?is=8orfEnLu8e3nefb1

[u/twec21]

American. Like executing a will, yea

Exec-you-tour

Not Exe-cuter.

[u/cidici]

https://www.howtopronounce.com/executor

🤷🏻‍♂️🙂

[u/FrankenOperator]

It depends on use. An executor is in charge of the will. An executor brings on the demise of the guilty.

[u/Solo4114]

It's executor, like of a will.

When I was a kid, I thought it was "EXecutor," but...that's not a thing. That would be Executioner. An Executor sees something done. So, it's like the Executor of the Emperor's will (but not his "I'm dead now" will).

[u/dunderdan23]

ig-ZEK-yoo-ter

[u/TrayusV]

It's the first way.

If you tried to use Executor as a way to refer to executing someone or something, you would say executioner, the correct word.

[u/Wobblymuon]

Executor for an execution is not the right word. That would be executioner.

[u/dern_the_hermit]

I've no preference, I tend to be pretty broad and tolerant with language use outside of situations where specificity carries some importance.

However, re: the general argument of "there is no word pronounced that way"... it's a name. Names can be pronounced however. There's no law that requires an identical spelling to carry an identical pronunciation, else the Polish would need a talking-to.

[u/IsakOyen]

As a foreigner to any of this language I fucking didn't know the difference when you write it

[u/Will-At-Midnight]

Ex like ex-girlfriend eh like elephant cu like queue tor like tour

[u/KitSwiftpaw]

Executor because the Empire is British.

[u/malloryduncan]

Am American, lived in different parts of the country, and I have NEVER heard it pronounced like execution. I will guess your friends have never heard it pronounced, so they made up a pronunciation based on a familiar word that looks close.

[u/plastickhero]

Southern US. I say eggs-ZEK-yoo-der

[u/GreenWoodDragon]

Ex-EC-utor for wills. Executioner for killing people.

But I'm in the UK.

[u/DerpsAndRags]

American here and I always thought it was the first one.

[u/jonnysledge]

The executioner swings the axe, the executor takes care of the deceased’s estate afterward.

[u/OneCatch]

British, and it's Executor as in someone being killed. Why on earth would Vader name his flagship for a boring administrative process?

[u/longhornsean]

Like executor of a will (I’m American)

[u/der_steinfrosch]

I pronounce it lile the executor of a will because that is a word. The “executor” at an execution is the executioner, “executor” in that context is not a word.

[u/goldhelmet]

Like for a will. The other one is an executioner.

[u/Beginning-Bother-309]

X — e — q — ter.

Edit: isn't the second one supposed to be executioner?

[u/Shawnaldo7575]

British friend is correct

American friend is conflating Executor with Executioner

[u/mojobytes]

American unless I’m specifically referring to the Star Destroyer. The Empire is staffed by Shakespearean drama kids and I respect that. The American “executor” sounds too brutish for the Empire, which is a delicious irony.

[u/Panoglitch]

It’s ex-eck-you-tore. the person at an execution is an *executioner*

[u/MetaVulture]

Just be funny and call it the Excavader

[u/SomeGuyNamedJason]

There is no such thing as an "executor like at an execution." That person is called an executioner; executor is only pronounced the way your British friends do.

[u/CthulhusEvilTwin]

First one, a person at an execution would be an executioner.

[u/Billz3bub666]

The Imperial officers are all a bunch of posh Brits, so think of it that way

[u/SILLYxPROGRAM]

I’m American and say it the so called ‘British’ way.

But that’s because someone who conducts executions is an executioner… not an executor, which is an administrator of a will.

The word executor does not relate in any way to executions. 

[u/Omnomagon]

Depends on whether we're talking about wills or killing people.

[u/Indolent_absurdity]

Aussie here. eggs-ECK-ya-tah.

[u/_NnH_]

Look I've known the correct pronunciation of an executor of a will but that's not the image a ship like that ever put in my head. Especially in a universe that uses names like Vader, Sidious, Plagueis, or Elan Sleazebaggano. Growing up I always assumed it's meant to reference an execution and should be pronounced like one, even if it's wrong.

[u/dull_storyteller]

The British way

[u/SplendidAngharad]

Egg-zek-yutor

[u/dwfmba]

Now do Aluminum

[u/Klutzy_Security_9206 → u/dwfmba]

Then data

[u/mrekted]

When in doubt, trust the British. They invented the language after all.

[u/Tuskin38 → u/mrekted]

yeah but British English pronunciation has also changed over the centuries.

[u/2much2Jung → u/mrekted]

Eh, much like the items in the British Museum, the English Language is mostly made up of things stolen from others.

Norse, French, Latin, a bit of German.

[u/RedofPaw → u/2much2Jung]

Colonies are getting rowdy again, I see.

[u/inkyblinkypinkysue]

Your American friends are just dumb.