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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.
K with caron: Skolt Sámi, Laz K̑ k̑: K with inverted breve: Proto-Indo-European dialectology, Glagolitic transliteration K̓ k̓: K with comma above: Greek transliteration K̕ k̕: K with comma above right: K̔ k̔: K with reversed comma above: K͑ k͑: K with left half ring above: Armenian transliteration Ķ ķ: K with cedilla: Latvian K̦ ...
K. Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples -kary-nucleus: Greek:
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
This glossary of physics is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to physics, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including mechanics, materials science, nuclear physics, particle physics, and thermodynamics.
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This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).