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I don't know what the answer to your question is, but I love the way tekst is spelt.
I am Groot.
*Ik ben
yea I guess it has a visual ring to it
Pagina
Breed groot pagina
Fun fact: in Dutch the word pagina is pronounced exactly the same as vagina
Well, not exactly the same, but they rhyme, yes.
Pagina schmagina
Besides Dutch, tekst is a word used in Albanian, Danish, Estonian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish
Also in all Cyrillic languages since those don't have an X letter and have to use ks (ΠΊΡ) instead
Lithuanian has tekstas it is just two letters away from tekst .
And in Finnish we use "teksti"
SMS is "tekstiviesti"
Scandinavian languages also spell it like that, as it's closely related to Dutch without (much) french influence.
The only words I can remember that we spell with X as place names such as Texas and Mexico.
Edit: dutch, not german
Yeah, I speak German, but in German it's spelt Text.
In Swedish we spell it text.
Well, you swedes also eat Kex, if my memory serves me right. X seems a lot more common in swedish than noggie.
We Finns use ks instead of x as well.
Alexander would be Aleksanteri and so forth.
I wanted to make a joke about the Swedes but then I googled it and there was a thorough Quora answer, so I'll link that instead.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-X-used-a-lot-in-Swedish-but-not-in-Norwegian-and-Danish