“Folx,” “womxn,” and “Latinx” are all terms that have all spiked in Google searches over the last five years and have become the subject of lengthy subreddits focused on understanding the problematic ...

The letter “x” often symbolizes something unknown, with an air of mystery that can be appealing. Illustration by Meilan Solly Even though “x” is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, ...

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X is everywhere and it’s probably thanks to math. But why is x the symbol for the unknown? Despite being one of the rarest letters in English, the letter X is everywhere. We sign letters with it, we ...

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One little letter, so much baggage. By Stella Bugbee The letter has its obvious appeals. X is a versatile shape — one of the few capital letters to remain symmetrical whether bisected vertically or ...