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[–] nadram@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How it has not caught on to call it Xitter (Shitter)... I don't know

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Because starting with ‘X’ does not guarantee the ‘sh’ sound. See ‘xylophone’, ‘Xavier’, ‘Xenon’.

Xitter looks like ‘exiter’ to me.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago

Zitter to me, which is kinda gross

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Shylophone, shaver, shenon...checksh out.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Xean Connery hates this simple trick.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Shylophone

What a great way to describe me at a party.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 5 months ago

I just call it "The website formerly know as Twitter".