folx

noun

Etymology: Variant of folks. While the word was already gender-neutral, the suffix -x is a deliberate social signal of awareness of sexual minorities. Compare English Latinx.

1. Alternative spelling of folks.
2. Eye dialect spelling of folks, representing African-American Vernacular English.

   “I presume yoᵣ lo. will fynde to be very stronge besides the qualitie of the peticonars to be lookte vppon, whoe if they be noe other then as folx [also fox] is stilde mear mariners, it cannot promise muche of their extraordinarie performancis, as hath bin made appeare formerlye in this perticuler designe, [...]”

   “De kommitte told me dere wus a great gedderin ob de culored folx at Brudder Jonson's Eatin House, [...]”

3. Folks; people.

   “This time around the fine folx of Rocktober bring us the greatest rocknroll^([sic]) moments in television history.”

   “I write this book with the goal of showing you that Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous folx are not a “was,” that we are [...still present.] […]”