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California law only mentions letters from the alphabet being used but Grimes said that \"one dash is allowed.\"

Although the spelling of their baby's name has changed, the pronunciation remains the same. During his time as a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Musk explained how to say his son's name.

He explained that the X is pronounced like the letter and \"the AE is like pronounced 'ash,'\" then A-12.

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