How to pronounce except:
Example: "He demurred at my suggestion to work on saturday"
Example: "The bad results were excluded from the report"
With the exception of; but.
Example: "There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans."
With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
Example: "I never made fun of her except teasingly."
Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.