English

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Etymology

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X is pronounced /ks/ in English. thanks +‎ -x.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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thanx

  1. (slang, intentional) Alternative spelling of thanks
    • 1982 December 25, “Jack In Berserkely (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 14:
      What can I say? THANX It was wild!

Noun

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thanx pl (plural only)

  1. (slang, intentional) Alternative spelling of thanks
    • 1995, Tupac Shakur, letter to Lori; published in Molly Monjauze, Gloria Cox, Staci Robinson, editors, Tupac Remembered: Bearing Witness to a Life and Legacy[1], San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2008, →ISBN:
      Please accept my thanx and gratitude as a small token of appreciation.
    • 2002 June 5, “Senior Wills”, in The News-Ledger[2], 38th year, number 42, West Sacramento, Calif., →OCLC:
      I, Stephen Repace, leave my thanx to all the teachers who helped me get through high school in a fun and exciting manner, without you I’d be lost.
    • 2005, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, “Acknowledgements”, in When Our Children Come Out: How to Support Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Young People, Sydney, N.S.W.: Finch Publishing, →ISBN, page 231:
      My thanx also to contributors and research participants whose pieces were unable to be included, only because of word limits: []
    • 2008, Evelyn Sweet-Hurd, His Name Was Donn: My Brother’s Letters from Vietnam, Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 213:
      Since I’ll be walking over hill and dale etc I won’t get a chance to write so please drop a note to H & V, Cindy E. and Joan expressing my thanx for their BD greetings and why I can’t write now—have much to do and little time.

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