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Singer Grimes and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have revealed how to pronounce their baby’s name, X Æ A-12. But it looks like they have different takes on how to say it.
What’s the news:
- Earlier this week, Musk and Grimes announced the birth of their baby son, who they named X Æ A-12. Questions immediate arose about how to pronounce the name and what it means.
- Grimes answered the first question on Tuesday, saying the “X” represented the variable letter X, “Æ” is the elven word for “love” or “artificial intelligence” and A-12 is the couple’s favorite aircraft.
How do you pronounce X Æ A-12?
- In response to questions about how to pronounce the name. Grimes explained how to pronounce it in response to a question on Instagram.
- She said, “It’s just X, like the letter X. Then A.I. Like how you said the letter A then I.”
- But Musk had a different take. He appeared on a podcast with Joe Rogan, where he explained the pronunciation leans into the “Æ” character.
- “I mean it’s just X, the letter X. And then, the Æ is, like, pronounced ‘Ash’ ... and then, A-12, A-12 is my contribution,” he said.
- So the two different pronunciations are: X-A-I-A-12 and X-Ash-A-12.
The couple’s name might hit a snag
- The couple lives in California, which has a slew of rules about how you can name your children. In fact, according to state rules, you can only use 26 alphabetical characters of the English language for the name. This would mean that X Æ A-12 wouldn’t work on multiple levels since “Æ” is an elven word and A-12 has a dash and number in it.
- “In California, you can only use the ‘26 characters’ of the English language in your baby name,” family law attorney David Glass told People magazine. “Thus, you can’t have numbers, Roman numerals, accents, umlauts or other symbols or emojis. Although an apostrophe, for a name like ‘O’Connor,’ is acceptable.”