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XYZ Affair….
A to Z Blog Challenge is fast approaching to the
finishing line. Just three more letters to go to find the finishing line.
Today
is the turn of the 24th letter in the Alphabet, that is: “X”
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| Pic. Credit: Wikipedia |
The beginning or origin of this letter is very
interesting. The World Encyclopedia
says, and I quote: “It came from a
word used by the Semites, who once lived in Syria and Palestine. They named it samekh, their word for fish, and adapted an Egyptian hieroglyphic,
or picture symbolized to represent fish. The Greeks later took the symbol into their
alphabet, and used the letter to represent the sound of ch.
The Romans used the letter to represent the same sound, but changed its
shape slightly.”