Regarding Elon Twitter.
This
has me pondering.
Not sure why, yet.
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X is the 24th letter of the alphabet?
How do you spell the letter X?
X – ex. The spelling of the letter X, ex, might seem foreboding. That's because we often equate it with the prefix ex-, meaning “out of” or “without.” We also use ex as a verb to mean putting an X over something, literally or metaphorically, as in I exed out the name on the list.
Third-to-last letter in the Latin alphabet.
The letter 'Χ' ~ 'Ψ' for /kʰ/ was a Greek addition to the alphabet, placed after the Semitic letters along with phi 'Φ' for /pʰ/.
There are very few English words that start with ⟨x⟩ (the fewest of any letter). When ⟨x⟩ does start a word, it is usually pronounced 'z' (e.g. xylophone, xenophobia, and xanthan)
On some identification documents, the letter X represents a non-binary gender, where F means female and M means male
In Dutch, ⟨x⟩ usually represents [ks], except in the name of the island of Texel, which is pronounced Tessel. This is because of historical sound-changes in Dutch, where all /ks/ sounds have been replaced by /s/ sounds. Words with an ⟨x⟩ in the Dutch language are nowadays usually loanwords. In the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, family names with ⟨x⟩ are not uncommon (e.g. Dierckx, Hendrickx, Koninckx, Sterckx, Vranckx).
Childhood and family. Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, one of South Africa's capital cities. Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
In mathematics,
x is commonly used as the name for an independent variable or unknown value.
As a result of its use in algebra, X is often used to represent unknowns in other circumstances (e.g. X-rays, Generation X, The X-Files, and The Man from Planet X; see also Malcolm X).
Maps and other images sometimes use an X to label a specific location, leading to the expression "X marks the spot
X is the third least frequently used letter in English
(after ⟨q⟩
and ⟨z⟩), with a frequency of about 0.15% in words.
Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
In the C programming language, "x" preceded by zero (as in 0x or 0X) is used to denote hexadecimal literal values.
X is commonly used as a prefix term in nouns related to the X Window System and Unix.[
Signal flag
American manual alphabet
British manual alphabet
At the end of a letter or other correspondence, 'x' can mean a kiss