{"id":103373,"date":"2020-01-28T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=103373"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:17:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:17:35","slug":"20200128-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20200128-01\/?p=103373","title":{"rendered":"You might call it a &#8220;cross&#8221;, but I&#8217;m still going to call it an &#8220;X&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tldr\/2019\/9\/9\/20857136\/sony-playstation-x-button-apparently-actually-called-cross-button-circle-controller\"> PlayStation UK created a horrific uproar<\/a> when they proclaimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStationUK\/status\/1169651442027827200?s=20\"> the \ud83d\udfa9 button on the PlayStation controller is called &#8220;cross&#8221;, and not &#8220;X&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, but I&#8217;m still going to call it &#8220;X&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, the term &#8220;cross&#8221; is used to refer almost exclusively to the religious symbol \ud83d\udd47 or shapes similar to it, with the same vertical orientation. It certainly is not commonly used to refer to the rotated symbol \ud83d\udfa9.\u00b9 The name of the rotated symbol is almost uniformly &#8220;X&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The game of Noughts and Crosses is called Tic-Tac-Toe in the States.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b9 We also do not use the word &#8220;cross&#8221; to mean &#8220;angry&#8221;. A sentence like &#8220;She was cross about the delay&#8221; is distinctly British English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different usage on this side of the pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-103373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Different usage on this side of the pond.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}