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    10 months ago

    Xenon? Xylem? Xenobiology? Xanthoma? Xylocarp? Xiphoid? Xerosis? Xyster? The scrabble favorites xi and xu?

    There’s loads of cool words that begin with x

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      10 months ago

      Xylophone: fun, colorful, easy for a kid to remember as a cute little instrument

      Xenon: An inert gas used in… MRI scans, I think?

      X-ray is probably the only other ‘X’ word with more real-world representation than xylophone, and as pointed out above, that’s not quite representative of how the letter is used phonetically in the rest of the language.

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        9 months ago

        Xylem is a major component of almost all the plants you see. I’m not sure how much more real-world representation you can get…