How Do You Pronounce Faxanadu?

[Jedi Master Baiter]

When I first layed eyes on the boxart, I read it as Faxan-A-doo, for some reason expecting it to spell out Faxanuda. Then, for the longest time I pronounced it Fax-zanadu.

Then I discovered it is a portmanteau of Family + Xanadu. I always pronounced Xanadu as Zanadoo, but still pronounced Faxanadu the same way until realizing it probably should be Fax-zanadoo.

Funny thing is, I still pronounce it as Fax-zanadu in my head. I know this is probably wrong, but in order for my pronunciation of the spinoff game to be correct Xanadu would have to be pronounced Zánadu.

But that also lends itself to another pronunciation: Fax-zánadu.

To make things even more complicated, does the 'X' retain its 'Z' status? Fazanadu

[Duke.Togo]

I'm pretty sure it is Fa-zanadu. Just like you mentioned it is Famicom Xanadu, so that only makes sense to me. I've heard plenty of people in the US say Fax-anadu though, and that just doesn't sound right to me at all.

[garyptaszek]

I always pronounce it Facks-zan-a-doo...

[jpx72]

Fah-ksah-nah-duh 

[lobdale]

The Japanese is clearly "fa-zanadoo" but as I kid I remember reading it as "Fax-an-a-doo."

[crade]

Don't know about the japanese one, but the english one is clearly

Fax - anne - adoo

Last part is pronounced like much "ado" about nothing

[macbee]

I say "FA-SHA-NA-DOO"