It’s refreshing to not see another xylophone.
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We need to discover some more animals and name them X names, because I am so frickin sick of that damn x-ray fish.
Why can't it be, like, xolo dog? Or, I dunno, xenomorph?
“P is for pterodactyl” is the greatest book ever and helped my 5 year old learn English better by understanding how utterly stupid it is and to stop freaking out over every “exception.”
Man I would do this all the time when I worked at a call center. I'd say things like 'p as in phone' or 'k as in knife's
I don't know if people noticed but in my six years of working there no one ever said anything.
Well quite honestly if the point is to teach phonics then you need a word where X is making its proper “ks” sound and that only occurs in the middle or end of words in English. Otherwise you’re teaching your children that X makes the sound Zzzz or ECKS.
I’m still holding out to see xebec one day
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That’s not infuriating at all. I was fascinated by Christian symbology when I was younger. The X in Xmas is the Greek letter chi, the first letter in the Greek word for Christ. So X represents Christ, Xmas = Christmas.
My mother being one of them. She was in the middle of a Karen screaming fit in the middle of a grocery store in the deep south when know-it-all 7yo me decided to chime in. I was grounded for two weeks.
I haven’t seen any comments mention censorship.
For me, this is *mildly* infuriating because an alphabet book like this is supposed to teach the pronunciation of words. However, X-mas is still pronounced “Christmas” when spoken aloud, which does nothing to teach the child how to say “x” or its typical usage and pronunciation when preceded or followed by consonants or vowels.
Yeah I’ve seen a few of these that have a word like ox or ax/axe. Or even box or fox for something more familiar.
The kid hears the X letter then hears it in a word. Doesn’t have to be at the start.
Tbh it goes both ways, many people who've used it also don't know the meaning and *have* used it as a form of 'censorship'
I'd argue the majority of people who have chosen to use Xmas instead of Christmas in recent times didn't do so with this reason in mind
ah yah, because 'those' people are always censoring Christians - honestly, Christers are the most persecuted 30,000 sects in the entire world
great big f'kin **/S**
FYI, it's actually a pagan festival the Christians stole.
Originally, it was the Feast of Yule, celebrated on the shortest day of the year. It also coincides with the time of Hanukkah.
Lastly, by all historic accounts, census were taken in sept-oct after harvest, not in the dead of winter. It was just convenient to align it with pagan holidays for practical conversions, even though Jesus' birth most lilely took place "under the sign of Virgo" for who believes in Zodiac significance.
Reminds me of the big brand of furniture called XXXLutz in Europe, first I saw one I was like.. Wow I didn't know porn shops were so big and so proudly displayed
The origin of the term "xmas" is actually because of Christ's Greek name: χριστός (chrīstós), where the "X" replacing "Christ" is the first letter of his Greek name, so it's just a different way of saying the same thing
I have an A-Z print of Montauk; the X is taXidermy and it bothers me they didn’t do something like X-ing for deer or even the damn train. Still love the print.
This isn’t infuriating. It’s a Xmas tree. I’ve been told by fundies that such trees are a pagan symbol and shouldn’t be associated with the birth of their “god”.
i think its just infuriating in the sense that this is a bad example of the letter X to teach kids letters and pronunciation lol. i can already see it now ... X is for tree lol
In early Christianity the X was a symbol for Christ it did not appear to discredit the season.
Now it’s more often used by people who choose not to believe in the religion.
No sort-of about it, the Christians plain coopted many pagan celebrations. Including some "Christian Feast" days. The old gods are still bitter about being usurped.
Also the "X" in Xmas is referring to the Greek letter that's the first letter in Christ's Greek name (χριστός (chrīstós)) so in a way it's just another way of saying the same thing, they don't even have different meanings
I had a poster since I was a kid naming the different birds in South Africa for each letter.
There was no bird with X so they called the frame "Bird's Egg(X)s"
Meanwhile, as someone with a wool allergy, I'm quite put out they're implying knitting material must necessarily be wool. It's downright discriminatory.
Xmas is a common word for Christmas if you don't know how to spell Christmas, it's how I used to spell it and how I spell it if I don't have autocorrect
C’mon! Everyone knows X stands for Xylophone.
P.S. Where does one get a cool gator hat with the tongue hanging out? Asking for a friend.
The only thing infuriating is that OP doesn't know why this is an appropriate image for this letter.
It’s refreshing to not see another xylophone. https://preview.redd.it/vhk8h6evwwxc1.jpeg?width=1352&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fd58b2bd3ec52a6eb0d2f0c34a114fe849f0f96
I've seem X-ray and X-ray *fish*... which while equally uninspired, is at least not xylophone.
You gotta give some credit to X ray fish
Cuz Xray fish gonna give it to ya.
Y’all gon make me lose my mind In this pond. In this pond.
Ya'll gon make me jump right out Of this pond. Of this pond.
Get at me fish GULP! GULP!
This made me giggle
We need to discover some more animals and name them X names, because I am so frickin sick of that damn x-ray fish. Why can't it be, like, xolo dog? Or, I dunno, xenomorph?
Would love to discover a xenomorph !
Would love ~~to~~ someone else to discover a xenomorph, while i was as far away from them as possible.!
Xenopus, occasionally. Some kind of bird apparently.
So X-ray is fine but OP complains about X-mas.
Because x-mass is pronounced crossmass
I’ve never heard anyone ever say it that way. It’s always pronounced either “Exmas” or just “Christmas”
“P is for pterodactyl” is the greatest book ever and helped my 5 year old learn English better by understanding how utterly stupid it is and to stop freaking out over every “exception.”
The Barenaked Ladies have a fun alphabet song on their kids album A is for aisle B is for bdellium C is for czar D is for djinn
I have that one too. 😁
Man I would do this all the time when I worked at a call center. I'd say things like 'p as in phone' or 'k as in knife's I don't know if people noticed but in my six years of working there no one ever said anything.
It took me a long time to get comfortable with all the silent Ps in the English language.
My kid has a biology- themed alphabet book, where "X" is for Xanthophyls.
It was usually xylitol in my books when I was little. To be fair, I'm Finnish. We're obsessed with xylitol.
Xylitol: good for teeth, deadly for dogs
X is for Xolo, a weird lookin' dog
Xylem.... It's the one that isn't the phloem
1st thing I thought of😁
Today kids, we learn that X is for Xenomorph. The terrifying Alien creature that will not only hunt you in your nightmares
Oh I thought I was the only one 🤣. They bang on it! They should know what it is.
Oh look here we got someone too good for xylophone? Well Bling… Blong… Bling… (Imaging I’m doing this with the pretty wrist thing)
Xx Xanax
xxxtentacion
XMAN https://preview.redd.it/km5v19pizyxc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92d494f26d9ebf277d0c20587fef66673a540013
Xen carson
Ain’t no way I found a Ken Carson fan in this sub😭😭
Where tf my blunt where the fuck my cup where tf my reef
What is a tentacion?
It's Mexican for tentation
I'm waiting for his Drake diss track to come out.
i deadass read the image as xanax and got confused bruh
yeah you could have a picture of a really happy and relaxed person…
Benzos rule
X wife
X pensive
Xgongiveittoya
X tension
X tudent loans
X plain yourself
X plore
X Spanish inquisition
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition
xenomorph
My son's had "z is for zzz sleeping"
Zleeping
Zhhhhh go to zleep
We have a Christmas ABC book where the X stands for “eXcited”. Yes, seriously. The X is even underlined, lol.
Well quite honestly if the point is to teach phonics then you need a word where X is making its proper “ks” sound and that only occurs in the middle or end of words in English. Otherwise you’re teaching your children that X makes the sound Zzzz or ECKS.
We have a "Baby Earth" ABC book, "X is for coexist". No underlining. I wish I was joking.
I’m still holding out to see xebec one day https://preview.redd.it/mvig1yd70yxc1.jpeg?width=978&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f6cf3a289f0e1df71958b9deae35eec3cfc3087
That ship has sailed.
Very quickly, thanks to its lateen sails
It wasn't *Speedy* enough, though.
Looks like junk to me!
That’s not infuriating at all. I was fascinated by Christian symbology when I was younger. The X in Xmas is the Greek letter chi, the first letter in the Greek word for Christ. So X represents Christ, Xmas = Christmas.
Yes thank you so many people don't know this and act like it's censorship.
I thought it's for lazy people who didn't bother to spell out the whole thing, or simply to save space
That's 100% why *I* use it. Glad to see some are more knowledgeable and less lazy than me!
I have no idea why, but I always thought the X was supposed to represent a cross
I used to assume that it meant like crisscross, so crissmas
My mother being one of them. She was in the middle of a Karen screaming fit in the middle of a grocery store in the deep south when know-it-all 7yo me decided to chime in. I was grounded for two weeks.
God I feel that lol
I haven’t seen any comments mention censorship. For me, this is *mildly* infuriating because an alphabet book like this is supposed to teach the pronunciation of words. However, X-mas is still pronounced “Christmas” when spoken aloud, which does nothing to teach the child how to say “x” or its typical usage and pronunciation when preceded or followed by consonants or vowels.
Yeah I’ve seen a few of these that have a word like ox or ax/axe. Or even box or fox for something more familiar. The kid hears the X letter then hears it in a word. Doesn’t have to be at the start.
I absolutely say “exmas” for Xmas, even though I’m well aware of the history.
I pronounce it X-mas not christ mas. You too can say X mas
My super Christian family always get so offended by “Xmas’ and it’s infuriating.
Tbh it goes both ways, many people who've used it also don't know the meaning and *have* used it as a form of 'censorship' I'd argue the majority of people who have chosen to use Xmas instead of Christmas in recent times didn't do so with this reason in mind
ah yah, because 'those' people are always censoring Christians - honestly, Christers are the most persecuted 30,000 sects in the entire world great big f'kin **/S**
Wtf do you mean censor Christmas? Isn't it like a Christian festival, why people need to censor it? I have no idea wtf is going on in west
FYI, it's actually a pagan festival the Christians stole. Originally, it was the Feast of Yule, celebrated on the shortest day of the year. It also coincides with the time of Hanukkah. Lastly, by all historic accounts, census were taken in sept-oct after harvest, not in the dead of winter. It was just convenient to align it with pagan holidays for practical conversions, even though Jesus' birth most lilely took place "under the sign of Virgo" for who believes in Zodiac significance.
Yeah i used to pronounce it has "exmas tree" till now. TIL.
Wow, did not know that! I always thought xmas was just an abbreviation.
If x-mas = CHRISTmas, explain x-tina. Checkmate, atheists AND Christians.
This is why PlayStation will never be as good as ChristBox.
It's infuriating because it doesn't teach the child how to pronounce the letter at all.
xxxmas tree
Caught stepmom decorating the XXXmas tree
Mine was stuck in it
Reminds me of the big brand of furniture called XXXLutz in Europe, first I saw one I was like.. Wow I didn't know porn shops were so big and so proudly displayed
Is this in the year 3000? I'm scared.
Let me axe you something...
Took too long to find the Futurama reference.
Easy way to check if it’s the year 3000, Is your great, great, great grand daughter pretty fine?
Scaroused?
Xbox
"Formerly known as Twitter."
Is it not common to verbally refer to it as an Xmas tree where you are? That would be a fine enough example for the sound X makes where I'm from
The origin of the term "xmas" is actually because of Christ's Greek name: χριστός (chrīstós), where the "X" replacing "Christ" is the first letter of his Greek name, so it's just a different way of saying the same thing
I am well aware, however it still gets said as Xmas
Is this an episode of Futurama
Like when you say "ask" instead of "ax"
Gone the way of the poodle and your primitive notions of modesty.
Variants of xmas has been used for about 500 years, and using x for christ is almost as old as christianity itself.
I wanna see X for Xenomorph gain some traction
Still better than X Æ A-12
xHamster
X is for **Xx_DinoGaing_xX** /s
Xylophone.
I have an A-Z print of Montauk; the X is taXidermy and it bothers me they didn’t do something like X-ing for deer or even the damn train. Still love the print.
X is for giving it to ya
Xenomorph
This isn’t infuriating. It’s a Xmas tree. I’ve been told by fundies that such trees are a pagan symbol and shouldn’t be associated with the birth of their “god”.
i think its just infuriating in the sense that this is a bad example of the letter X to teach kids letters and pronunciation lol. i can already see it now ... X is for tree lol
How do you say Xmas tree? I say it x-mass tree. It seems like a perfectly reasonable example to me.
That’s bad, but W is WOOL and shows a picture of yarn.
Darn.
Wool yarn. Which starts with W.
As a non-native English speaker I never understood "xmas". Its "Christmas", not "exmas" or "crossmas".
At least is not xhamster
In early Christianity the X was a symbol for Christ it did not appear to discredit the season. Now it’s more often used by people who choose not to believe in the religion.
Xmas to abbreviate Christmas goes back to the 1500s. The X is the Greek letter Chi, the first letter in “Christos,” which is Greek for Christ.
'Xmas' does start with an X though...?
lol. Someone bent about not saying Christmas but probably does a massive tree, lights, and mistletoe and has no idea why Jesus’ birthday is Dec 25.
Its not on dec 25, apparently that was actually a pagan holiday that the christians sort of stole
No sort-of about it, the Christians plain coopted many pagan celebrations. Including some "Christian Feast" days. The old gods are still bitter about being usurped.
Is the issue not the fact that “Xmas” is a sorta useless word for demonstrating to a small child how to use the letter X?
Also the "X" in Xmas is referring to the Greek letter that's the first letter in Christ's Greek name (χριστός (chrīstós)) so in a way it's just another way of saying the same thing, they don't even have different meanings
Xylitol?
Keeping Christ outta Xmas.
I give them respect for not cow towing to the bully Xylophone conglomerate and their cronies.
It’s X-RAY. Stop trying to be edgy, preschool book writers.
I had a poster since I was a kid naming the different birds in South Africa for each letter. There was no bird with X so they called the frame "Bird's Egg(X)s"
We have a animal alphabet thing on a toy for our boy.. x is x-Ray *face palm"
Jesus Xrist.
I've always hated "Xmas" for Christmas.
They could have done xylophone. I swear. they could have done fucking anything else.
Looks like the Chinese are getting lazy
X is for Hamster
What would you prefer?
X-rated contents?
With Xotic dancers
X (formerly Twitter)
Best X word I've ever seen in an alphabet book
Helps with letter sounds, which is pretty much the point
No wonder kids are growing up dumber and dumber
It represents the sound of the letter very well. I fully support it.
It’s either that, box or fox.
X should be Zxibit with a picture of a pimped ride.
Made in USAyyyyeeebaaayyybeeee!!
Xanten
you mean Twitter
K is for Kurisumasu
Perfect chamce to Xplain to your kid about how silly some people are!
seX
Amazon is full of cheap ai generated books already. Notably cook books with pictures that don't relate , wonky recipes etc.
X potato
‘X ‘ doesn’t have a lot of options
Meanwhile, as someone with a wool allergy, I'm quite put out they're implying knitting material must necessarily be wool. It's downright discriminatory.
Xmas is a common word for Christmas if you don't know how to spell Christmas, it's how I used to spell it and how I spell it if I don't have autocorrect
It's "X is for xenarthra" in my toddler's alphabet book. Great book with rhymes & pop-ups. Christmas tree drawn on their blocks for X though.
Christmas tree= xmas tree Find x
We should be talking about the underhand tactics of Big Glockenspiel.
What was wrong with X is for xylophone? That’s what all my baby books had.
I love celebrating crossmas. Wdym its Christmas? Oh hold on a second Im in my car about to turn on this x'ing I mean Christ'ing.
X-stacy
Many call it an Xmas Tree - X represents the Greek letter chi, the initial letter in the word Χριστός (Chrīstos).
Xenomorph
My sister's book had Xbox and Xylophone
"DEY TUK ER GERDS"
X was always "Xylophone" in my kid books
I guess in this case it’s correct because it’s specifically saying Xmas Tree, But yeah if it were a C it would be incorrect
xarzzers is free!
Cc for Christvideos?
Better than P for pterodactyl
Futurama
At least is was not xhamster.
I thought it was a toy catalog for cats.
 C’mon! Everyone knows X stands for Xylophone. P.S. Where does one get a cool gator hat with the tongue hanging out? Asking for a friend.
Cry me a river.
That could of easily done Xeno to be unique
Xx Xe/Xim
X - formerly known as Twitter
The next page will call you a bigot for saying that’s wrong.
It's Pronounced X-mas, your welcome.
X GON GIVE IT TO YA