OK, you know me,
this page is full of a little of everything, but sometimes I like to do some
research on the oddest things and here is one of those bits of research. It has
baffled me all weekend since I had this thought so had to look into my queries.
I just wondered
why we put an x, for a kiss, on notes, cards and letters, as well as the net.
So this is why!
The X, we place
on envelopes and so on, dates back to the middle ages, when the Christian cross drawn on documents to
represent was a sign of sincerity,
faith and honesty.
For those
signers, who could not write, a cross was placed and then the person would kiss
the cross to show their sworn oath.
Now I thought the sign of the O, was new, but
no. It is of North American descent, and when arriving to the United States, Jewish
immigrants, most of whose first language was Yiddish, would use an O to sign
documents, not to use the sign of the cross
OK, so
when I received an online message with XOXO, I thought I was in for a good game
of naughts and crosses, but no, that means kisses and hugs. Now, some research
says that the X, represents the four lips and the O is the arms hugging. This
is from a bird’s eye view!!!! O …K
Hahaha. So what I
need to ask now, is, who the heck asked the bird?
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
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