LetX represent the forecast traffic flow in 20 years’ time.
2020 January 30, Richard Johns, “Why Physicalism Seems to Be (and Is) Incompatible with Intentionality”, inActa Analytica[2],→DOI, pages7-8:
To know whether a wordX is heterological, we must already know whatX means. (By contrast, I can know that the word “subdermatoglyphic” has certain syntactic properties—it is six-syllabled, contains the letter “m”, etc.— without having any idea of its meaning.) This indirectness is fine as long asX already has an assigned meaning, for in that case the meaning of “heterological” is ultimately grounded. But whenX is the word “heterological”, then we are trying to define “heterological” in terms of itself. We have a closed circle, and a contradictory one, due to the negation operator in the definition.
2025 February 3, Richard Luscombe, “Marco Rubio appoints himself head of USAid as workers locked out of office”, inThe Guardian[3],→ISSN:
Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted toX that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.
Usage notes
Despite officially rebranding toX in July 2023, the social network is still commonly referred to asTwitter.
2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, inThe New York Times[4], archived fromthe original on2019-06-08:
So last summer, when the Massachusetts State Legislature became one of the first in the nation to consider a bill to add an “X” option for nonbinary genders to the “M” and “F” on the state driver’s license, El, 17, was less surprised than some at the maneuver that effectively killed it.
Etymology 3
Presumably by abbreviation of the pronunciation ofecstasy.
2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), inGet Rich or Die Tryin', performed by50 Cent:
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'. Look, mami, I got theX if you into takin' drugs.
2008, Stephen King,Graduation Weekend:
Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs ofX will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.
2018 June 8, “Love Druggie”[5]performed by Mendoza:
I'm a love druggie falling for these drug junkies. Come n call on me besides theseX parties. It's fucking hard on my body.
If you go to anX movie you do so knowingly, as does everyone else in the audience. Or if the same thing comes up on TV you can switch over, or, if you wish, enjoy it in relative privacy.
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A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
Usage notes
In the German-based spelling,x is thedefault spelling for/ks/, but not the most frequent spelling. Following the German cognate or otherwise when there is an interveningmorpheme boundary, the spellingschs, cks, ks (possibly alsoggs) may be used instead.
In the Dutch-based spelling,/ks/ is usually represented byks. The letterx occurs only rarely in loanwords.
X is never doubled and preceding vowels are short unless they are themselves doubled (as in English).
The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. Seethe Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, andX for information on the development of the glyph itself.
Borrowed fromAncient GreekΧ(Kh,“chi”), which represented /ks/ in the dialects of most of the Greek mainland and Euboea.
Pronunciation
The sound of X was like that of the GreekΞ(X,“xi”), that is /ks/, although etymologically it represented not onlycs (as inlūx, from luc-s, anddīxī, from dic-si), but alsogs (as inlēx, from leg-s;rēxī, from reg-si);hs (as intrāxī, from trah-si;vexī, from veh-si); andchs (as in the wordonyx, from onych-s, borrowed from the Greek). Thehardening of a softer final (g,h,ch) befores into theс sound, which occurs in the last-mentioned cases, is found also in several roots ending inv andu:nix forniv-s,vīxī forviv-si,connixī for conniv-si,fluxī forfluv-si, fromfluō (rootfluv-; comparefluvius),struxī forstru-si.
Less frequentlyx has arisen from the combinationsps andts:proximus forprop-simus (fromprope),nīxus for nit-sus (fromnītor), the latter being used along with the collateral formnīsus, as alsoconnīvī withconnixī, andmistus (frommisceō) withmixtus.
An exchange of the soundsss ors andx, took place inaxis forassis andlaxus forlassus. In the later language of the vulgar, the guttural sound inx disappeared, ands orss was often written for it; asvis forvix,visit forvīxit,unsit forunxit, conflississet forconflixisset, in late inscriptions; hence regularly in Italian, and frequently in the other Romance tongues, the Latinx is represented bys orss.
By a mere graphic variation, one of the constituent sounds ofx is often expressed in inscriptions (but not the earliest) by an additionalс ors; as SACXO or SAXSO forsaxō; VCXOR or VXSOR foruxor; CONIVNCX or CONIVNXS forconjunx; even both sounds are sometimes thus expressed, VICXSIT forvīxit.
2025 January 28, Jordan Valinsky, “Google Maps cambiará el nombre del golfo de México por el de "golfo de Estados Unidos"”, inCNN en Español[7]:
En una publicación enX, Google explicó que tiene una “práctica de larga data de aplicar cambios de nombre cuando se han actualizado en fuentes gubernamentales oficiales”.
Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
