What's the reasoning behind abbreviating hugs and kisses as x's and o's Some say x is for hugs and o is for kisses, and some say the other way around But why x and o, and why are they doubled? Xox, the xs could certainly be said to be centered around the o In the middle, not skewed to one side or the other The sun in the solar system is a good example
Unfortunately, microsoft word puts a big green grammar underline under my use of the the phrase, so i always change it to centered on to be a conformist English, like some other languages, systematically reduces certain consonant clusters But it has a conservative spelling system (which incidentally often reminds us where a word comes from) The clusters we reduce are mostly in borrowings from other languages Particularly initial clusters /ks/ ('x'), /pt/, /pn/ which are generally from greek, but also for example /hr/ (and in fact /h. Moreso and more so are both correct, but in different contexts
In this example, the so in more so relates back to the statement of the quality of anna's performance However, i believed the novel was moreso about oppression than the human spirit In this case, there is no precedent to justify more so, therefore moreso is used. Br is often used for ‘best regards’, and xox (o) for ‘hugs and kisses’, etc Apart from that, you can simply use ‘best’, which is only four letters and thus hardly worth abbreviating That said, absent a particular, strong, practical driving force in the opposite direction, it’s usually very difficult, if not impossible, to answer why something doesn’t happen or why some.
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