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

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 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/605/transcript