That Special K

And I Don’t Mean the Cereal
By Jeff Salter

[I posted this on facebook about a year ago and just now stumbled across it again. It served to renew my zeal to get RID of all those special (i.e., SILENT) ‘K’s. Hope y’all can join and help me uncover even more of the dastardly villains.]

Might as well go ahead and arrest me, cuz I’m breaking the law! Yeah, this whole business about words with a silent ‘K’ is ridiculous and I intend to change it. Here and now.
Henceforth and forever more, for the words with a silent ‘K’, we can simply omit the ‘K’ and save a lot of ink.
But during the transition period, I will allow us all to use an asterisk in place of the silent ‘K’ — just so we can all recognize which word is in play.

Here’s how a typical paragraph might read:

The gallant *night *nelt on the slight *noll, tapping his *nife on his quaking *nee. He *new the dastardly *nave was nearby and that tied the *not in his belly even tighter. He rubbed a *nuckle into the tightly-*nit weave of his chain mail. He had a *nack for charging into trouble because a damsel misplaced her *nickers. Though, in this instance, all the fault lay with the *nave, who (to my *nowledge) *nocked down her door.
Ahh, but that’s getting ahead of our story…

Question:
Can you think of any more silent ‘K’s we ought to *nock off?

[JLS # 356]

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