XOXO?

[Shibby]

"XOXO" <----- How did this come about to meaning hugs and kisses?

[urso8up]

good question ...does anyone know I have always wondered that myself

[Bdubb]

Only guess I have is that the "O" resembles a hug, and the "X" (puckered up lips), a kiss.

[Puddles]

"One theory holds that the X stands for a kiss because it originally represented a highly stylized picture of two mouths touching -- x. Furthermore, in early times illiterates often signed documents with a St. Andrew's cross of X and kissed that X to show their good faith (as they did with any cross or the Bible, which reinforced the association). But these explanations may be folk etymology, as may the story that mathematically the X is a 'multiplier' -- in this case of love and delight."

From the "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).

[njjuicer]

Originally posted by GymChic
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XOXOXOXO







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