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Looped K

There's no mention of the lower-case K that has a loop in it instead of the top diagonal. The articles for a and g talk about both versions of their respective lower-case characters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.30.14.50 (talk) 02:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC) 113.11.225.180 (talk) 09:31, 5 September 2009 (UTC) k is the most used letter after e[reply]

Meaning?

When I was in law school, we used K to mean "contract." Anyone else do this as a law student or lawyer? --♥ «Charles A. L.» 04:21, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

Fixing the top of this article

Somebody please fix the top of this article; it looks very DIRTY.

It does, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell is wrong. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:25, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Go to "edit this page" and study the way it was typed; and that should give you a clue. 66.245.124.202 20:27, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Maluma and Takete

Someone changed the phrase "Not surprisingly, several languages use characters with sharp angles to indicate the sound /k/ " to "Surprisingly..." I guess this is subjective, but to me it came as no surprise when I realised it was the case. I thought the Maluma/Takete distinction was widely known, but it isn't even mentioned in Wikipedia - perhaps because one needs copyright to reproduce the figures. Anyhow, if no one has any objections, I suggest we remove the adverb altogether to "Several languages use characters with sharp angles to indicate the sound /k/ ", and then it's up to the reader to become surprised or not.

I agree; I'd been considering doing this myself. FourlopadDALiSZooohfour 12:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hgjhtfygiodjroigfjdeiurudiugirguirdhisehrselrihfsoejdkk kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kuds98urpa0wurijfdsu

k is also thermal conductivity

k is also thermal conductivity in physics. i would edit it myself but have :Unsigned -->

Done.--58.104.75.186 07:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

K in cyclops

Why the hell do some writers try to ruin the only perfect letter in our God-Forsaken alphabet by making it also have an s sound?

Cameron Nedland 21:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply
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Erm...cyclops doesn't have a K in it. --Brain 00:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps he meant to post this on the letter C? Shinobu 19:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cyrillic К

Should we add also some info about cyrillic K?

Done. Shinobu 19:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Taiwan?

"K書" (literally k the book) means read the book.

Why? Any references for this? Etymology? Shinobu 19:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In gaming K stands for 1,000

I'm a native Taiwanese and I can confirm this (a more accurate translation would be "to study hard"), although I had a hard time trying to find references; most people just use it so naturally, I think. Here is a news article from Xinhua net talking about Taiwan slangs. [1]
One possible etymology is that "K" is short for "看 (kàn)". That's doubtful, though, since Taiwanese people aren't normally familiar with pinyin; another possible explanation provided in the Xinhua article above is that it originally referred to the king in poker cards, but then it expanded its meaning to denote taking a vigorous move to tackle something. Indeed, there is also "K歌" which just means to sing. However I think that usage is also present in Hong Kong, because Eason Chan had a song called "K歌之王" (The king of singing). Keith Galveston (talk) 15:01, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

K in games

In some video games K means 1,000 —The preceding

unsigned comment was added by Full Throttle FURY (talk • contribs) 16:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC).[reply
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K stands for kilo (Latin for thousand, I think). SalaSkan 22:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As well, K is the only Scrabble tile with point value 5. Should I add that to the article? ZtObOr 23:46, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

j 03:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)03:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)03:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.11.77 (talk)

K is also used by many scorers as an abbreviation for strikeout in baseball --Slxception (talk) 20:42, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No productive "Hard C" in Germanic languages other than English?

Dutch seems to C in German exists singly in words adopted directly from Italian (cello, cembalo) when it represents the palatal affricate and of course in "ch", "sch", and "tsch". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul from Michigan (talk • contribs) 20:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Symbols using K?

Is there a list of symbols using K or a circled K? Aside from the Circle K convenience store chain, I saw a circled K on a circuit board in a CD player, and was wondering what it meant.

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Please watch this paragraph

This article has a paragraph saying:

In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all used to represent the sounds /k/ and /g/ (which were not differentiated in writing). Of these, Q was used to represent /k/ or /g/ before a rounded vowel, K before /a/, and C elsewhere. Later, the use of C and its variant G replaced most usages of K and Q. K survived only in a few fossilized forms such as Kalendae, "the calends".[4]

Please note that this paragraph of the article needs to be improved by including why B/P and D/T didn't get a similar story. Georgia guy (talk) 00:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3DG, if you see here, you'd see that the /g/ was unstable as it was likely palatized, as in the modern Romance languages, or deleted after thorough softening, for example we have "quick" in english cognate with latin "vivus" which actually would have more alike English as "guivus",but was softened into "vivus". Only with Classical Latin it was settled & standardized what would take "g" & what not. However, "b" & "d" also go back softer sounds in Proto-Italic, & sometimes they'll come up in imitative words "balbus" or be as muddled as "g" as in "lingua" that which would have been "dingua", again, more like our "tongue". Yoandri Dominguez Garcia 03:35, 9 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoandri Dominguez Garcia (talk • contribs)

Something misleading here

"It is the fifth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 0.8% in words."

However, since English has over all a heavily French & Latin borrowed wordstock, this is not wholly true. Once borrowed are discarded, K is more often as in, kick, kite, king, kiss, etc, (which if french, would have been, quique, quite, quingue, quisse, etc. or something alike.) Yoandri Dominguez Garcia 03:30, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

There's no reason to exclude borrowed words. —Granger (talk · contribs) 12:20, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 2 August 2019

Change MESURE to MEASURE in the sentence 'K is the unit symbol for the kelvin, used to mesure thermodynamic temperature.' Dave suv (talk) 01:38, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Done JTP (talk • contribs) 01:55, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 12 November 2019

At present the article

WP:anchor. Thus, may {{anchor|Potassium}} please be inserted adjoining the piece of text here, then I can add the link in the Potash article. Thanks.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 11:31, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply
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 Not done. Such a link would run afoul of
MOS:EGG. There's no apparent use for linking to the article about the letter K from an article that uses it in one specific way. If you think it's unclear in that article, you can simply add a bit of explanatory text instead. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 14:32, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply
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OK I'll think about that instead.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 14:53, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 5 April 2020

2409:4052:2007:360C:BC38:46CA:3A26:9DC7 (talk) 05:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Jamietw (talk) 11:12, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Other usage

The second-last bullet point is

  • When expressing amounts of money, $20K means twenty thousand dollars.

This is incorrect: it should be a lower case k, which is the shorthand notation for kilo, the SI multiplier for 1,000. Upper case K is the "binary thousand", i.e. 210 = 1024.
Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 02:49, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kelvin sign

we use k to signify the kelvin in the kelvin thermometer.

Semi-protected edit request on 28 July 2020

the letter k is used in many words and is also used instead of the letter c Dancemacha (talk) 09:17, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be already mentioned. – Thjarkur (talk) 11:04, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 25 May 2021

In the Ancestors, descendants, and siblings section, turn Ḱ ḱ into Ḱ ḱ (e.g. link the lowercase) and Ǩ ǩ into Ǩ ǩ (e.g. do the same thing). 50.196.175.13 (talk) 21:24, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in revision 1025136844, added commas to separate the links. TGHL ↗ 🍁 22:52, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Josef K

Worth mentioning that Josef K were also a Scottish post-punk band active between 1979 and 1982. 37.235.43.27 (talk) 07:48, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unrelated to this page.
(CC) Tbhotch™ 21:15, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply
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This wiki page

This does not give me any information about what I was searching for so they better fix it! 76.170.32.23 (talk) 21:03, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment. What were you searching for? If it was some other topic called K such as a band or film, they are listed in K (disambiguation), which is linked at the top of the K article. Certes (talk) 21:22, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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