(n): any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
(n): a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
(n): the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet
(n): the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
(n): the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens
(n): human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens
O. Chemical element symbol for Oxygen.
That's true, Xing is also a common Chinese name, and it's pronounced "zing." So, I guess we can't win either way. ;-)
I head-pronounced 'Xing' as 'crossing' once I grasped the sense you intended; it also seems to be the name of a company, among other things...
Agreed, they should be consistent, I would think. But I don't really like the two forms you cited, personally, because x-ing is what you see on railroad crossing signs, and so I just head-pronounce it crossing. And x ing is totally weird: where else do you find a space between a verb and its -ing suffix? That can't be right!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/x suggests 'x-ing' or 'x'ing', so maybe the forms of 'to O' would be better as O-es, O-ing, O-ed.
Kind of like Xing, or however you spell that? Like when you X something out?
I've read - somewhere - that this word has been used (once, in the past tense) as a verb meaning 'to decorate with small circles'.