> That makes it as useful as the 'x', although that's also one we could do without. I would like to further improve the 'x' by making its pronunciation 'sk' at

> That makes it as useful as the 'x', although that's also one we could do without. I would like to further improve the 'x' by making its pronunciation 'sk' at the beginning of a phoneme, rather than 'z', 'ex', or maybe 'k'. It sounds fine in words like 'xylophone' or 'xray', and there are plenty of words like 'xy', 'xate', 'xunk', or 'xeleton' so we could re-balance our alphabet.