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Kicking around k
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Origins: open hand(1)
Greek: kappa
Frequency: 22nd most frequent letter in English (2)
"K" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "A letter borrowed by the English from the Greek alphabet.It ends a word after a diphthong: as, look, break, shook, leek. The English never use c at the end of a word. K is silent in the present pronunciation before n: as, knife, knee, knell." (3)
Origins: open hand(1)
Greek: kappa
Frequency: 22nd most frequent letter in English (2)
"K" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "A letter borrowed by the English from the Greek alphabet.It ends a word after a diphthong: as, look, break, shook, leek. The English never use c at the end of a word. K is silent in the present pronunciation before n: as, knife, knee, knell." (3)
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