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The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and, at the beginning of a word, a simple vocal sound as in xanthic. The form and value of X are from the Latin X, which is from the Greek CHI;, which in some Greek alphabets had the value of ks, though in the one now in common use it represents an aspirated sound of k. The X symbol is used to stand for multiplication in such equations as 5 x 5 = 25. ...