Felon Dusk Announces Plan To Rename The Letter 'E' To 'X'; ISO Declines To Comment
The proposal would affect approximately 1.1 billion uses of the letter daily. Scrabble rules unclear.
Tech billionaire Felon Dusk unveiled a new initiative Tuesday to formally rename the letter 'E' to 'X' across all written languages, citing 'brand consistency' and 'the letter E being deeply boring.' The proposal, posted in a 3 AM thread of 47 consecutive messages on his own platform, outlines a timeline of 18 months for global adoption, a new keyboard layout, and a transition period during which 'xtended backwards compatibility' would allow the old letter to remain in use. The International Organization for Standardization issued a one-sentence statement reading: 'We have noted the proposal.' Linguists, spelling bee organisers, and the entire nation of Estonia have responded with varying degrees of alarm.