What is the point of 'k'?

[classic33]

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.

How would that work with sowing seed?
A herd of sows and a heard of cows would become a herd of cows in both cases.

 

[Sharky]

From another thread ...." tires of different types"

So our friends across the pond have replaced
"tyres" with "tires"

So why don't they replace
"types" with "tipes"?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Anyone visited the Lace District lately?

Isn't that in Belgium or Chantilly... Or something?

From another thread ...." tires of different types"

So our friends across the pond have replaced
"tyres" with "tires"

So why don't they replace
"types" with "tipes"?

Thanks, for some daft reason, I can never remember the spelling.

 

[Electric_Andy]

one breakfast cereal I haven't had for decades is Special C

 

[briantrumpet]

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.

You might like to discuss this proposed change with David Bowie first, given C is quite a useful companion to H



And on Burns Night, the Scots with their lochs might like a word too.

 

[briantrumpet]

From another thread ...." tires of different types"

So our friends across the pond have replaced
"tyres" with "tires"

I hate to break this to you, but the original British English spelling was 'tire' (from cart wheels in the 15th century), which the Americans have preserved. The spelling 'tyre' was a much later invention, but even the Encyclopaedia Britannica was still spelling it as 'tire' in 1910. The etymology supports the US spelling.

Sorry.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

 

[classic33]

I hate to break this to you, but the original British English spelling was 'tire' (from cart wheels in the 15th century), which the Americans have preserved. The spelling 'tyre' was a much later invention, but even the Encyclopaedia Britannica was still spelling it as 'tire' in 1910. The etymology supports the US spelling.

Sorry.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:
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Can you ever tyre of something though?

 

[briantrumpet]

Can you ever tyre of something though?

I haven't wheely thought about it.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

You might like to discuss this proposed change with David Bowie first, given C is quite a useful companion to H

You are quite right: c is one of those alphabetic characters used to cover a host of accents and phonemes for which there are no dedicated letters. As well as [t∫] as in change, church; or [x] as in loch; there are [θ] as in think, three; [∫] as in shape; the glottal stop [¿] replacing the [t] sound in the cockney pronunciation of water (wa[¿]er) and a good many others. Fascinating phonetics; but perhaps not quite so fascinating as listening to David Bowie.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I haven't wheely thought about it.

You did at least spoke up.

Oh no, without k our spokes will disappear. No more riding.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

A herd of sows and a heard of cows would become a herd of cows in both cases.

Not really. Orthographic changes would still entail rules of spelling which would give a pig farmer a herd of sows and a beef farmer a herd of kows.

 

[Dogtrousers]

You did at least spoke up.

Oh no, without k our spokes will disappear. No more riding.

we'll have to use disc wheels.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

we'll have to use disc wheels.

And fit a rim brace

 

[Shut Up Legs]

At least for PCs, 'k' won't be needed:
- nobody measures things in KB anymore, it's just too small
- hard disks? not really: SSDs are becoming more widespread

 

[Sharky]

At least for PCs, 'k' won't be needed:
- nobody measures things in KB anymore, it's just too small
- hard disks? not really: SSDs are becoming more widespread

They have "Ceyboards" though.