Citations:exie-osies

English citations of exie-osies

• 2009, Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz, “Tic-Tac-Toe Around the World”, in The Double-Daring Book for Girls, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 29:

  Tic-tac-toe has been played worldwide for centuries. It has many alternative names in English: “tick-tat-toe” in Canada, “noughts and crosses” in Australia and South Africa, “Xie-Osies” in Northern Ireland, even “kisses and hugs” in some parts of the United States.

• 2016, James Hendler, Alice M. Mulvehill, “The Games We Play”, in Social Machines: The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity, New York, NY: Apress, →DOI, →ISBN, page 36:

  Before we can explore computer play at chess, let's start with a much simpler game: the game of tic-tac-toe (also called noughts and crosses, Xs and Os, or exy-ozys). This game is one of the first games that many kids learn.

• 2019, Glenn Patterson, Backstop Land, London: Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN, page unknown:

  The largest parties get first dibs, which for the past thirteen years has largely meant the DUP and Sinn Féin making a grab for Finance and Economy. There is an element of noughts-and-crosses – exie-osies, as we prefer – about it: closing off one route sometime leaves you open to another.

• 2022, Deepankar Maitra, “Build Your Own Game with a Simple Algorithm—Tic Tac Toe”, in Beginner's Guide to Code Algorithms: Experiments to Enhance Productivity and Solve Problems, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 17:

  Tic Tac Toe has many names in other countries— it is called “Kata Kuti” in the Eastern part of India, “Exy-Ozies” in Ireland, and “Xs and Os” in Zimbabwe!

Web citations

• 2011 February 22, @RubyMcAleese_, Twitter‎^[1]:

  Got bored of wahat I was doin in english so started to play exy ozies instead

• 2013 February 8, @DarinaMcA, Twitter‎^[2]:

  Cliodhna playing exie osies by herself #nomates

• 2019 January 2, @DH_RFC95, Twitter‎^[3]:

  What could managers possibly be writing on their notepad 1 minute and 27 seconds into a game? Rafa looks like the type of guy to have a game of exy ozys with himself every few minutes.

• 2019 October 20, @dps, Twitter‎^[4]:

  I made a Tic-Tac-Toe board (that’s Noughts and Crosses for all the English readers and “exie ohsies” for the norn-iron crew) for my daughter. Looks good cut from light and dark wood, I think. It's surprisingly fun to play with a five year old!

• 2022 February 26, @ronanskehill, Twitter‎^[5]:

  Imagine being with someone for 2 years and realising she calls it exie ozies and not X's and O's 😂😂

• 2022 September 6, @shiteebag, Twitter‎^[6]:

  Found out today that English folk call Xy Ozys “naughts and crosses” / Fucking weirdos