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Why does the letter X represent the 'unknown'?

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    Posted: 05 December 2018 at 1:27am

Why does the letter X represent the 'unknown' in so many languages? Where did this originate from?

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Shxx! Who would have thought that!
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Good little funny.

And good to remember that Islamic culture has been the most advanced in the world for longer than the West has been.
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