The Letter X

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This feature is all about X. Isn't this X-citing? ;-)

If unable to answer a question, you are encouraged to click the link of the article and search for answers there.

X

1) True or false: The Phoenicians have a use for the 'x' sound.

2) The Phoenician ancestor to our X is called "samekh" which is also a word meaning ___.

3) The Phoenician samekh became the Greek ___.

4) The ___ alphabet is now what we know as the classic Greek alphabet.

5) The X we know now that is formed with 2 diagonal strokes came from the ___.

Clueless? Perhaps this link will help.


X-cuse me, 
need to pee! ;-)



:-( -> :-| -> :-)

DL
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"Y's-hood (wisehood ;-) is what Red wore instead because it helped her to be smart enough to figure out that it is foolish to wear a riding-hood while she's horseless in the woods."
--D.L.