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How do you write/draw an X?

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,859
    5
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,360
    7
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,794
    7 for a capital, 8 for a cross, 9 for lower case.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,794
    McBobbin said:

    8 for me. I'm a southpaw/cackhanded wandering if there's correlation? One thing I've noticed from a couple of left handers of my acquaintance is that they do ticks backwards. The big bit then the little bit. They should be hung as witches.

    You and your acquaintances are all sinister.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,527
    I'm in with the in-crowd: 8

  • Was reading in Graphologist Weekly that anyone who isn’t an 8 is a sexual deviant.
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,105
    very quick and highly inaccurate count up

    1 - nobody
    2 - 1 person
    3 - 2 people
    4 - 1 person
    5 - 21 people
    6 - 9 people
    7 - 42 people
    8 - 25 people

    6 people mentioned using the mathematical x for lowercase too.
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,412
    7, does it show a particular trait?
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,412

    very quick and highly inaccurate count up

    1 - nobody
    2 - 1 person
    3 - 2 people
    4 - 1 person
    5 - 21 people
    6 - 9 people
    7 - 42 people
    8 - 25 people

    6 people mentioned using the mathematical x for lowercase too.

    And they call us trainspotters!! how very dare they :smiley:
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    All the intelligent ones are 8 ... I’m 7
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  • I've now discovered a weird thing - if I write it in a word it's 7 but if I write it on its own I do 5.

    Odd! Never would have realised that without this thread.
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,412

    I've now discovered a weird thing - if I write it in a word it's 7 but if I write it on its own I do 5.

    Odd! Never would have realised that without this thread.

    riveting stuff @North Lower Neil :smile:
  • I've now discovered a weird thing - if I write it in a word it's 7 but if I write it on its own I do 5.

    Odd! Never would have realised that without this thread.

    riveting stuff @North Lower Neil :smile:
    Cheers mate. I'm not sure there is anything more interesting I can write on this thread to be honest!! "I write mine with an explosion at the end, then Kat Slater comes in and shouts 'YES I AM!!' before shooting JR."
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,011
    stonemuse said:

    7

    Just actually checked it whilst I was writing and the above is totally bollocks!

    Should be 5
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,957

    I've now discovered a weird thing - if I write it in a word it's 7 but if I write it on its own I do 5.

    Odd! Never would have realised that without this thread.

    You've made me think again ...... so I wrote sex 'Bexley' in my best joined up handwriting. :smile:

    And in the middle of/end of a word, the x comes out as a 5.
    Yet if I write in print form, it comes out as a 7.

    Things I didn't know I needed to know.


  • I have genuinely grown to hate this thread.

    I really couldn’t decide how I wrote the letter x at the time.  As a consequence I decided to wait until the answer emerged naturally.  I generally complete (or nearly complete) two crosswords a day, so I wouldn’t have to wait long … or so I thought.

    The trouble is that this problem has somehow imprinted itself on my brain.  As I go to write the letter x a trigger is set off and I become self conscious.  My pen then hovers over the crossword as I decide which corner to attack. This is a total fail, the results have to be shredded and the problem shelved until the next time.  I have on occasion written an x without any predetermined thoughts, but have then subsequently struggled with the slow motion replay in my head.

    I actually believe that I can start a letter x from three different corners i.e. bl (6), tl (5) and tr (8 or 3 maybe).  I have to say the jury is still out on that though. Thankfully I have eliminated 1,2,4 and 7, To start bl would be plain daft … wouldn’t it?


  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,105
    Erm, you’re welcome. I guess.  :D
  • Erm, you’re welcome. I guess.  :D
    Yeah, thanks a bunch mate.
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  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    edited February 2019
    Seven as a capital or a love 
    but five in a sentence. What a great thread..