April 28 X is for X

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                                                                     X

I found that trying to do something that started with X hard.   So I thought that I would do X .

X is the 24th letter of the English alphabet.  This poor little letter  starts the least amount of words, in the dictionary. I could only find one first name, Xavier, starting with it.  I couldn't find any surnames that start with it. Poor little X!

But without X we wouldn't have excitement, exclaim, exclude, explore or extreme. These are just a few of the words that X is a big part of.

What would an x-ray be without X, just a little ray!

Semaphore X-ray.svg
This is semaphore for X.

ICS X-ray.svg
This is the signal flag for X.

So let us not forget X but celebrate its uniqueness.

Bye for now,
Lilian.

Comments

  1. GeniAus29 April 2016 at 10:58

    An Xtra special letter.

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  2. ScotSue30 April 2016 at 04:03

    You show that you don't have to write at length to create an interesting and informative post. This year is the first in all the years of doing the A-Z challenge where I have not resorted to eX words and there are so many of them!

    Thank you for your comments on my A-Z entries.
    Family History Fun

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  3. GeniAus29 April 2021 at 14:58

    Just remembered my daughter had a classmate - Xanthe

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