What is the point of 'k'?

[AndyRM]

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Who is Z anyway?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

Is that when you get insomnia and can't zzzzz?

 

[classic33]

I have not been to Bradford in years (I think I went to a media and T.V. museum where I saw some original Clangerzz... Sorry...) so I can only speak of elsewhere.

Who is Z anyway?

2007-2008?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

2007-2008?

Late '90s' if anything. My brother was there, which will date it, just like our visit to the Goonhilly Down Earth Station in Cornwall (1995). 😍

Forget seeing the Eifell Tower or Switzerland, Goonhilly Down still taps into my boyhood memory, like it was something very special!!

 

[Badger_Boom]

Cold and damp out so the pair of us have been discussing the possibility of a 25 letter alphabet ilo a walk (or possibly walc).

We can't see that 'k' does anything that 'c' can't do instead.

Doing away with K would help avoid awkward encounters like this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EE2MC4kCw

 

[Dogtrousers]

I think we could ditch A and let O take over.

Or E if we want to sound a bit posh.

 

[raleighnut]

I think we could ditch A and let O take over.

Or E if we want to sound a bit posh.

Bellecks.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Bellecks.

You sound like the Queen.

(The old Queen, Liz. I'm not sure what the latest one sounds like.)

 

[geocycle]

Philosophy would be the poorer, Immanuel Can’t doesn’t seem very positive. Knitting would be about remove bugs and Norr stoc cubes would be a loss.

 

[katiewlx]

 

[Rezillo]

Losing k would weaken part of Alan Bennet’s telegram sketch (Norwich). Not that anyone today knows what a telegram was or how one could get some rude content past the system by using acronyms.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

C is superfluous. I kan't see why anyone would want to use it. Adding a c to a k is just mukking about, double k does the job even better. Using c to represent the English /s/ sound is unnessessary. Doubling the s avoids mispronunsiations, although most doubled ses are probably also superfluous. All part of the great English language orthographic konundrum: keep in mind George Bernard Shaw.

 

[Poacher]

Portuguese manages without K, W and Y in their 23 letter alphabet.
Struggles with New York, which comes out as "Novo Iorque".

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Anyone visited the Lace District lately?