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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!miner
  2. From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Xcultural, Xtian, Xlation...more?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.065643.45006@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Nov 92 06:56:43 CST
  7. Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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  10. Fellow sages:
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  12. I'm trying to assemble all the uses of "X" I can find along the lines
  13. of
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  15.     Xcultural    (trans-, cross-, inter-cultural)
  16.     Xtian        (Christian)
  17.     Xlation        (translation)
  18.     ...        ...
  19.  
  20. in addition to the older Xing and Xmas.  Note that the "X" actually
  21. represents diverse syllables.  Additions invited; these can't be
  22. all of them.
  23. -- 
  24. -Ken <miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> {Sometimes you have to look reality straight
  25.  OPINIONS ARE MY OWN            {in the eye, and deny it. - G. Keillor 
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