Go ahead and deny that half your friends have screennames that use the format "xX(name)Xx".

That's usually done because the screenname between the "xX Xx" was already taken. Or every conceivable number was already added to the end of it.

Back in the early nineties, this troper's school used timetabling software that required every teacher to have three initials. Most of the ones who only had two adopted X as a middle one.

This troper has a friend who has an "X" in her name, and uses her real initials when posting in online {{Fora}}. When asked why she didn't adopt a pseudonym, her answer was "I couldn't think of anything cooler". The troper nodded, and commented on catchiness of her initials.

This troper grew bored with the spelling of her name six years ago and changed the CH to a K, the I to a Y, and the ending Y to II. She still uses it to this day because nobody else does.

I presume that she changed from "Christy" to "Krystii"?

This troper knows a guy who changed the spelling of his name from "James" to "Jaymz". Partly due to the fact that his workplace violated the OneSteveLimit.

This troper had a falling out with his father's side of the family and since his mother's maiden name sucks, he took up an archaic spelling of his last name, Ximenes as opposed to Jimenez (to be fair, Ximenes is also the Catalan variation, and his family happens to be partially Catalan).

This troper's college gives each student a network ID based on their first, middle, and last initials with some numbers thrown on the end. If you don't have a middle name, or it's not on file for whatever reason, you get an "x" in your ID where your middle initial would be. Needless to say, people whose middle names aren't on file don't complain very often because - hello! - they get to have an "x" in their network ID. Xtreme!

Similarly but accidentally, when this troper submitted his enrollment form for a university chemistry course, his handwriting must have been slightly shakier than normal as the head of the course misread his middle initial "K" as "X" and used that in all correspondence and group handouts. The mystery of it was outweighed by having to explain to everyone for a year why X stood for Kenneth.

A club in this editor's hometown goes by the name of ''x3m'', apparently oblivious that L337speak conventions suggest it should be pronounced "Eczema" rather than "Extreme".

I don't see where you get the 'a'. Or the Z. Or how 'Xem' would become anything like that. Or where 'Extreme' comes from, since phonetically it would be Exthreem. I guess they have a lisp?

People with a lisp merge the phonemes "s" and "th". They may be Irish, since Irish dialects of English tend to merge "t" and "th".

A lot of organizations that have one word with a C and one with a K will change it so they're alliterative, Kay's Kritters for example. This troper's work had a program that was "Kidz Kamp", which gets bonus point for the cool z, as well. This led to the people who worked there being...Kidz Kamp Kounselors (Yes, seriously.), which leads to an interesting abbreviation.

This one's screename has an "X for an E acronym" X. In my defense, E just doesn't flow as well, cool or not, with a soft consonant. The choice is nothing to do with being "eXtreme" or "cool".

This troper went to a fair with a carnie booth where you mixed your own slushies. On it, in huge, impossibly kool lettarz, was "[=U-M8K-IT=]." I'm just glad it had the K, or it would have translated...not so well...

This troper knew a woman who had her name's spelling legally changed from Tracey to Trayce. Same pronunciation, just cooler to write.

My family takes Scrabble very seriously. One time I was playing with my little brother and sister on an electronic version. I was up and I decided to play "ZALT" just to see if anyone would call me on it. My brother was up next and my sister wasn't really paying attention so we decided to gang up on her like we usually do. He played "ZALTY" and when my sister's turn came up, it was too late as the program we were using allows only 10 seconds to challenge. To this day we always say "pass the zalt" at the dinner table.

This troper has actually made a reason for this in his novel. All nobility have to start their names with a C, and royalty with a K. Anybody without those letters is a peasant, and naming above your station is a crime. Admit it, I'm the greatest author alive.

Why would you willingly use this lame trope?

You'll have too many characters starting with the same letter, and readers will get them mixed up and put the book down in frustration.

For a period of time in kindergarten, this troper spelled her last name (Collins) with a K. Unfortunately, the teacher thought it was too cool and asked this troper's mom why suddenly this troper was spelling her name "Kollins." (Sorry, no Z. However, if I ever go back to spelling my last name with a K, I'll replace the S too with a Z and make it "Kollinz.")

A lot of my friends can't spell, so names get butchered. Natalie turns into Natilie or Natilee(extreme cases), Audrey is Odrie etc.

One of this feline at heart troper's online friend's real names is Kori. No joke.

Da_Nuke knows a guy who for some reason listed on Facebook his middle name as "X.". Not knowing his full name, for a while he assumed his middle name was "Xavier", which is not an uncommon name in Hispanic countries. It turned out it was just a gratuitous X just for the sake of being XTREME.

My cousin, a rapper, goes by the stage name of Key Kool. It's actually not too far off from his real first name, which no one but family uses; everyone else just calls him Key.

Name spelled in Xtreme Kool Letterz are getting more common, like Emalee for Emily, Hailee for Hayley and Caetlin and Katelynn for Caitlin.

This Troper likes to parody and subvert this trope. For instance, the "art brand" that I make everything under is "Sairain MIDI", which could have been easily called "Zairain", but it looks more professional and not kiddy, because nothing is kiddy that comes from that "brand". Also, I make up this little joke of whenever I see Extreme Cool Letters that I will sue the company for improper grammar and spelling.

This troper quotes a particularly foolish acquaintance: #QUOTE#"i can haz lotz of mistakez in teh facebookz cuz i express my feelingz wit teh z'z"

Juztified becauze my keyboard iz broken, zo I have to uze Z inztead. Man that lookz weird.

My name is Davíð not David, it is pronouced Dah-Veeth.

Eth is the ultimate in xtreme letterz!

This troper remembers when a new video store opened in his home town, they had a special corner set aside for children's movies; which had a giant sign hanging over it saying "Kids Korner"...''because poor literacy is kewl!''

First time this troper played D&D, the GM uploaded his map sideways, so the N on the compass rose became a Z. Calling north "zorth" became a running joke among our group.

My dad misspelled my name on my birth certificate, leaving me with a "y" instead of an "i" and two l's instead of one. Unyntendedd xtreme letters!

This troper's first name is Monika. With a K. It's a bit of a subversion, though, since that's the usual form of the name in her country.

As anyone who has played WorldOfWarcraft knows, when you are a Warlock your demons' names are generated randomly. This Troper had the odd coincidence of having an imp named Karloz.

In this troper's local grocery store they were selling chicken wings, and on one of the signs it said "Boneless wyngz" for no apparent reason.

This troper's name is Sydney. When she moved, the kids in her new class wrote a welcome message on the chalkboard. They wrote, "WELCOME CIDNY". Justified in that they were second-graders. From another country.

This troper had to write an essay about a tv show for children, and decided to name it using XtremeKoolLetterz. He's pretty sure that's the reason he didn't get a perfect score on the essay.

This troper's brother in law's first name is spelled Danial-with an a. Danial's mother gets very mad when people assume it's a typo and spell it like most normal people would, which is Daniel. (Of course, Danial named his two sons Mikael and Konnor and gets mad if people spell those names correctly, which if anything proves that stupid is hereditary.)