'X' is nothing-special when it "serves with other letters"—usually (like most consonants) like 'a drumset in the background' providing accent to help the vowels (and tone-carrying consonants like "L" & "N") sing out.
But singled-out, 'X' is a lot like "that drum-solo you really enjoy." It usually signifies 'an unknown factor,' like Christ or 'the magic of a kiss' or the mutant-gene or ... the guiding-force of an entire Generation!
The letter “X” carries the scent of “Fish, Ten” ("XX" meaning "(Powdered) Sugar (X for Grainy Sugar, XXX, XXXX & 10X for ... guilty pleasure)") .
When Dictionary.com tells us "X can be silent," I remember a rumor I heard about 'why many Cajun-American names end in "a silent X"'—when they were taking a census in 'the area' (New Orleans, Louisiana), many of the responders were illiterate. So they told the census-takers their names, the census-takers wrote them down (the best they could) and then had the responders 'sign the entry with an "X."'
However, a few sources tell us that that's just a myth: maybe (and it's well known) X is just a common ending for French's plural-words, maybe it's just the way Judge Paul Briant of St. Martin Parish (in charge of the census for this area) ended the names that ended in 'the "O" sound' (because he thought the 'eaux'-way was the one most used in the Acadian ancestral lands in France).
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