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[–]HelloMomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"X" is used in English commonly as a wildcard.

I don't think that's so much an English thing as it is borrowed from math. X is the default variable in mathematics.