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When I was a teenager I bought myself a huge English-English dictionary. I used to use it a lot, before the Internet era. And for school assignments in English which were for me a kind of challenge. As I don't have an Internet connection at home, I take this dictionary from my book shelf from time to time. Interesting, but never before I noticed how little words in English started with the letter X, only five are stated in my dictionary. Also the words starting with X, Y and Z are written together in one 'chapter'.

Slovenian alphabet doesn't have the letter X, although we use it quite a lot. Especially in mathematics. Using words like generation X (which I obviously but not on purpose belong to) and X-mas, when I write quick notes to my friends. English words are quite often used in our everyday communication, mixed with Slovenian of course. I use them too, I admit. And if I spoke Italian, Spanish and French (oh, yes, I wish!), I would probably use some words from those languages, too.

P.s.: I made myself a promise not to eat sweets for 40 days until Easter. So, x is the number of days I will keep this promise to myself. I doubt that the end result will be x=40. :)