Wednesday, September 14, 2011

X or O?

I am familiar with the shorthand xoxo, meaning hug/kiss, but today I started thinking:


Which symbol means hug?


Which symbol means kiss?


Perhaps you have always known this, but I realized that I do not!  So...the next natural step was to search google for information.  Some sources said they were interchangeable, but I liked urban dictionary's explanation the best: 



Hugs and kisses
 
O=Hug 
X=Kiss 
If you look at each letter like it was representing two people from a bird's eye view, the "O" represents the arms of those persons hugging each other while the "X" is evocative of two people kissing each other.

How sweet!  Hope you have had a great Wednesday!
xoxo,
Em

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