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Vaudeville words can be found in Neil Simon's 1972 play The Sunshine Boys, in which an aging comedian gives a lesson to his nephew on comedy, saying that words with k sounds are funny: [1] Fifty-seven years in this business, you learn a few things. You know what words are funny and which words are not funny. Alka Seltzer is funny.
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.
Kin-u – Bird; Kirin – Japanese Unicorn; Kishi – Malevolent, two-faced seducer; Kitsune – Fox spirit; Kitsune-Tsuki – Person possessed by a fox spirit; Kiyohime – Woman who transformed into a serpentine demon out of the rage of unrequited love; Klabautermann – Ship spirit
Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah. Ubume – Ghosts of women who died in childbirth; Uchek Langmeidong (Meitei mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature
100 Boy Names That Start With "K" Names like Kwame, Kross, Killian and Kabir won’t be found in every classroom. That’s just one reason parents should bookmark names that start with the letter ...
The next three words come after Aster because their fourth letter (the first one that differs) is r, which comes after e (the fourth letter of Aster) in the alphabet. Those words themselves are ordered based on their sixth letters (l, n and p respectively). Then comes At, which differs from the preceding words in the second letter (t comes ...
This is a list of full-power television stations in the United States having call signs which begin with the letter K. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex., KAJN-CD, K35OY-D and KXJB-LD—have not been included.