but how about the X in our XYZ's?
lets go back in time where there were no letter X's like the use nowadays in words like X-rays and Xylophones, here are some examples of the use X, above, the Lu Lu Alphabet (1867)
by Pamela Atkins Colman — Source.
The
"Union" Alphabet for Children (1862) — Source.
Nonsense Books (1888)
by Edward Lear — Source.
Footsteps on the
Road to Learning, or, The Alphabet in Rhyme (1849) — Source.
the Comic Alphabet (1847) by Percy Cruikshank — Source.
and perhaps the most obscure X of them all, What Socrates Said - source, Xanthippe, the supposedly “fiery” wife of Socrates, often shown in a rage pouring a chamber pot over her husband's
head, which — according to legend — the philosopher accepted with a simple
“After thunder comes the rain”, all I can say is thank goodness for X-rays and Xylophones!
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