The alphabet does not go ‘A ... Since I wrote pieces about X and Z, you astutely wondered, “Hey, Word Guy, why did you skip Y?” The truth is I don’t know Y . . . er, why.

The X in Xmas as an abbreviation for Christmas definitely does come from the Greek letter χ. The Greek word for Christ is Christos, written χριστοσ and meaning “anointed.” The χ ...

“X” is science fiction; “Z” is a biker movie. “Z” doesn’t care if he lives or dies. An antisocial letter used to make antisocial words. Dangerous words. “Zero,” “zipper ...

Out of a total of 308,000 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, just 366 words begin with the letter "x", and very few of those make it into most people's vocabulary. Yet despite this ...

uses the word cosa, meaning “stuff” or “thing,” to stand in for the unknown. Scholars may never know for sure, but some theorize that Descartes chose to make the letter “x” appear ...

(Anyone else surprised that J is used less than X and Z?) "The letter E is over 56 times more common than Q in forming individual English words," the OED analysis found. It notes that "there ...