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# Mixture
# Mixture


In the UK the ''Məx'' option was the most popular one, compared to ''Mix'' in the US, when the results were filtered by country.<ref>https://twitter.com/gendercensus/status/1086715761874345984?s=09</ref>
In the UK the ''Məx'' option was the most popular one, compared to ''Mix'' in the US, when the results were filtered by country.<ref>https://twitter.com/gendercensus/status/1086715761874345984?s=09</ref> The UK was the most likely place to see Mx as an option on a form, even though this only happened under 37% of the time. The US was 6<sup>th</sup> most likely, and Germany - the first of the non-English speaking countries - was 7<sup>th</sup>.<ref name=":0" />
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Pronunciation popularity by language<ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wBRd4RpSB0QmtGZd6M3qy4GP4XY_bkLjlnguJPZUVMs/edit#gid=973485179]</ref>
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|-
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|Mix
|Məx
|I don't know
|Spelling out M-X
|Mux
|Mex
|Mixter
|Mixture
|-
|English
|52.7%
|18.2%
|12.7%
|5.5%
|4.9%
|3.5%
|2.3%
|0.2%
|-
|German
|35.7%
|18.8%
|19.5%
|12.3%
|3.2%
|8.4%
|1.3%
|0.6%
|-
|French
|39.1%
|7.8%
|23.4%
|17.2%
|1.6%
|10.9%
|0.0%
|0.0%
|-
|Spanish
|43.8%
|6.3%
|21.9%
|6.3%
|0.0%
|21.9%
|0.0%
|0.0%
|-
|Dutch
|34.6%
|19.2%
|15.4%
|11.5%
|3.8%
|11.5%
|3.8%
|0.0%
|-
|[Blank]
|47.1%
|17.6%
|8.8%
|17.6%
|5.9%
|2.9%
|0.0%
|0.0%
|-
|Swedish
|30.8%
|19.2%
|23.1%
|11.5%
|0.0%
|15.4%
|0.0%
|0.0%
|-
|Polish
|33.3%
|22.2%
|18.5%
|0.0%
|14.8%
|7.4%
|0.0%
|3.7%
|-
|Finnish
|39.1%
|13.0%
|21.7%
|13.0%
|4.3%
|0.0%
|4.3%
|4.3%
|-
|Russian
|36.8%
|21.1%
|10.5%
|21.1%
|0.0%
|5.3%
|5.3%
|0.0%
|}
Most people who use Mx as their title view it as a gender-inclusive title, however those who don't are more likely to view it as gender-exclusive (i.e. as a nonbinary only title).<ref name=":0" /> When the answers of this question were viewed as a nonbinary-binary split instead of an Mx-not Mx, the results are a lot more similar in numbers - but gender-inclusive is still the most popular answer, and there were binary people who used Mx as their title sometimes or all of the time.


==Meaning==
==Meaning==
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