Does xoxo mean i love you

As Valentine’s Day draws near, candy hearts emblazoned with XOXO, as in “hugs and kisses,” remind us that love is in the air. But why XO?

Why not AB? Or XY? It turns out that XO, which has been becoming ever more popular as an affectionate sign off for texts and emails, had a fascinating journey on the way to becoming the modern call sign of “hugs and kisses.”

Kiss-Cross: Why "X" Marks the Kiss

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest evidence of the letter X symbolizing a kiss dates back to 1878, in the novel Seaforth by Florence Montgomery: “This letter...ends with the inevitable row of kisses,—sometimes expressed by × × × × ×, and sometimes by o o o o o o…” But since writing’s uptake of novel usage tends to follow that of everyday speech, it is likely that X was used in conversational contexts to stand in for “kisses” even earlier in the 19^th century.

Prior to the 19^th century, X appears instead to have been used to signal a blessing, as found in this letter dating back to 1763: “I am with many a xxxxxxx and many a

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