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by avnigo 1186 days ago
There's a This American Life episode [0] that mentions this:

> When I was a kid, and I would see the school crossing signs, and there's a picture of the little kids walking, and then it would say "School Xing" And I thought that the "Xing" was a word. And I pronounced it "zing."

[0]: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/605/transcript