About the Title

For the purposes of alliteration and the promotion of the letter of K, both Ks in the title of this blog are pronounced. It has always been my feeling that there are not enough K words and, furthermore, there are not enough K words beginning with K sounds. This becomes especially true the moment I am sitting in some sort of classroom or conference and it becomes time to introduce myself and the professor, speaker, or facilitator wants to force upon us some insipid icebreaker where I need to use K words or K sounding words to introduce myself. My choices are way too limited. For too long has K stood upright and mute while N has stolen the glory. Why is K forced into submissiveness next N? Why not Kay-nife, Kay-nowlege, Kay-new? And certainly knitting should be in this category too. What would be more sensible than knitting beginning with a K sound so that it brings to mind the soft clicking of the needles as they march their way through soft twisted yarn. In fact, I would like to go even further and strike the letter C out of our words, for this pretender has no sound of its own but rather steals both the klick klack, krackle and krush of K and the soft slither and resounding splash of S. Although obviously K is the one that is more greatly wronged by this usurper. Ah, well onto the K-nitting.