• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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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…