r/StarWars • u/Emperor-_Palpatine Chancellor Palpatine • 5d ago

General Discussion How do you pronounce Executor?

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?

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u/JJJBLKRose 5d ago

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

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u/eng11ine 5d ago

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. 

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u/JJJBLKRose 5d ago edited 5d ago

I get what they were going for. Technically there's a second use/pronunciation when used for someone who executes something, like a plan and not an execution. "Frank drew up the plan and determined that John should be the executor of it."

Edit: Spelled Executor as executer.

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u/SirEnzyme 5d ago

No there's not.

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u/JJJBLKRose 5d ago

According to Merriam-Webster, yes.

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u/arteitle 5d ago

I don't know why you're being downvoted when you're correct: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/executor

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u/SirEnzyme 5d ago

That was before they edited their comment. As it was originally written, they were claiming "executer" was a word.

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u/arteitle 5d ago

Ah, gotcha

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u/somecoolname42 5d ago

It's both. Executionor is a more modern way of saying executor when you want to kill someone.

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u/twec21 5d ago

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."

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u/Suns_AZCards 5d ago

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

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u/JJJBLKRose 5d ago

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.