X-X Word Update

Authors

Jeff Grant

Abstract

The letter X has always fascinated people. It represents that unknown, the indefinable, the mysterious. An X may be used to designate a kiss, a ten-dollar bill, a type of chromosome, and a strength of ale, as well as a person's signature, a mistake, hybridity, and a movie rating. The X-Lexicon is an unpublished collection of approximately three thousand terms beginning with X (there are 486 solid-form X-words in the Air Force list of Webster's Second Edition). To further illustrate its comprehensiveness, the X-Lexicon contains 376 terms starting xanth-, from Xanthaea to xanthylium.

Recommended Citation

Grant, Jeff (1992) "X-X Word Update," Word Ways: Vol. 25 : Iss. 4 , Article 9.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol25/iss4/9