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Elon Musk and Grimes nonetheless can’t agree on pronunciation of new child son’s identify, X Æ A-12

Grimes and Tesla founder Elon Musk appear to disagree easy methods to pronounce the identify of their new child son,  X Æ A-12.

New mother Grimes — actual identify Claire Elise Boucher — beforehand defined that Æ is the Elven spelling of AI, shorthand for synthetic intelligence. Musk, nevertheless, informed podcast host Joe Rogan in an interview launched Thursday that Æ needs to be pronounced “Ash,” whereas crediting his girlfriend for developing with the majority of the moniker.

“Initially, my companion is the one which, really, largely, got here up with the identify,” the 48-year-old CEO mentioned. “Yeah, she’s nice at names.”

“I imply it’s simply X, the letter X,” Musk added when requested easy methods to pronounce the identify. “After which, the Æ is, like, pronounced ‘Ash’… after which, A-12, A-12 is my contribution.”

Musk even corrected Grimes when she misspelled the identify of the plane, with the 32-year-old singer hitting again at her boyfriend, “I’m recovering from surgical procedure and barely alive so might my typos b forgiven however, damnit. That was meant to be profound.”

X Æ A-12 is the couple’s first youngster. Musk shares 5 kids — twins Griffin and Xavier and triplets Damian, Saxon and Kai — with ex-wife, author Justine Musk.