Ypsi now turned her gaze on Xi. “And you, X … you can be replaced by ‘C’ and ‘S’!” “What do you mean? Why would the Poet allow that?” asked Xi, in his panic laden voice. “Why not?” Ypsi sounded knowledgeable. “If ‘ecstasy’ is written without an ‘X’, what stops the Poet from dropping you from words like excite and exchequer? You will have no ‘excuse’ to ‘exercise’ when these will be spelt as ‘E-C-SC-U-S-E’ and ‘E-C-S-E-R-C-I-S-E’. And you’ll have a quiet ‘E-C-S-I-T’!” Xi immediately remembered that an early Lexicon had listed ‘Xebec’ as the only word starting with the letter ‘X’. He was
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