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What caught my attention on the roads in U.S. was a traffic sign with XING and a jumping deer, standing for 'deer crossing' and XINGPED announcing a pedestrian crossing place.
Obviously the cross part here is replaced by X.
But what about Christmas? Xmas. Here it replaces Christ for Christmas not Crossmas.
Anyone knows more specifics about this X- matter?
Are there more words where X takes over part of a word.
Crossfire? Xfire? Aren't there many with which you could do the same thing? Or has this crossed the topics before?
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Well, the X in Xmas is from the first Greek letter of the title Khristos 'anointed one'. Chi rho (i.e., XP) is another abbreviation, and a longer one is JHC XPC (from the first two letter and the final ones. I suppose Xasmus for chiasmus might be a possibility. I've used XL8 for a jocular translate.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I rmembered from somewhere sabout X representing Christ,and sure enough, try Googling:
christ x
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Thanks. zmjezhd, it was Xing my mind that X and Christ had something to do with eachother and that Christ means :"The annointed one". But my ancient Greek does not reach any farther than my marquant Greek nose. (the X replacing the KH)(CHi)
I understand your explanations. I think.
(I got it Dale, thanks)
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marquant = prominent
-ron (noticeably) obvious
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ron (marquantly) obvious :-)
Branny--is that you, in your new picture??
Edit: looks like your chute is failing...
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Yes, hah! me and my twin sky-diving. Never mind the chutes.
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looks like someone ate the chute and left.
formerly known as etaoin...
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Chute sandwich? With or without with fresh au jus? French Dip with fresh au jus
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All right than , Jackie. You wanne see a bird, you see a bird. No chutes or twins, just the brown pelican. I've tumbled enough for one day. And I can recommend the French Dip. About one year ago there was a thread about 'redundancy' in which "au jus sauce " was dicussed. I think TedRemington recommended the food and I took it and it was very good. Low calories, high satisfaction. Totally "state-of-the-art". 
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