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   Xhosa
         n 1: a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa
         2: a community of Negroid people in southern South Africa
         3: a Bantu language closely related to Zulu

English Dictionary: xxix by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
xix
adj
  1. being one more than eighteen [syn: nineteen, 19, xix]
n
  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one
    Synonym(s): nineteen, 19, XIX
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
xxix
adj
  1. being nine more than twenty [syn: twenty-nine, 29, xxix]
n
  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-eight and one
    Synonym(s): twenty-nine, 29, XXIX
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   xyzzy /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-ziz'ee/, /ziz'ee/, or /ik-ziz'ee/ adj.
   [from the ADVENT game] The {canonical} `magic word'.   This comes
   from {ADVENT}, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave
   with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there.   If you
   type `xyzzy' at the appropriate time, you can move instantly between
   two otherwise distant points.   If, therefore, you encounter some bit
   of {magic}, you might remark on this quite succinctly by saying
   simply "Xyzzy!"   "Ordinarily you can't look at someone else's screen
   if he has protected it, but if you type quadruple-bucky-clear the
   system will let you do it anyway."   "Xyzzy!"   It's traditional for
   xyzzy to be an {Easter egg} in games with text interfaces.
  
      Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op
   command on several OSes; in Data General's AOS/VS, for example, it
   would typically respond "Nothing happens", just as {ADVENT} did if
   the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had
   performed the action that enabled the word.   In more recent 32-bit
   versions, by the way, AOS/VS responds "Twice as much happens".
  
      Early versions of the popular `minesweeper' game under Microsoft
   Windows has a cheat mode triggered by the command
   `xyzzy' that turns the top-left pixel of the
   screen different colors depending on whether or not the cursor is
   over a bomb.   This feature seems to be gone in the 32-bit (Windows
   98 and later) versions.
  
   = Y =
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   xyzzy
  
      The {canonical} "magic word" from the {ADVENT}
      adventure game, in which the idea is to explore an underground
      cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find
      there.   If you type "xyzzy" at the appropriate time, you can
      move instantly between two otherwise distant points.   If,
      therefore, you encounter some bit of {magic}, you might remark
      on this quite succinctly by saying simply "Xyzzy!"
      "Ordinarily you can't look at someone else's screen if he has
      protected it, but if you type quadruple-bucky-clear the system
      will let you do it anyway."   "Xyzzy!"   Xyzzy has actually been
      implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several OSes;
      in Data General's AOS/VS, for example, it would typically
      respond "Nothing happens", just as {ADVENT} did if the magic
      was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed
      the action that enabled the word.   In more recent 32 bit
      versions, by the way, AOS/VS responds "Twice as much happens".
      See also {plugh}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  
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