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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)

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]

I would not say that is productive, as those words were taken from Italian long ago and in any case their spellings were pre-existing in Italian. "Productive" in this case means still being used to create new forms. I can't think of an English example for <c>, but an obvious one would be English plurals ending in <-s>. If a new noun enters the English language, it's likely that we'll make the plural by adding <-s>, so this form is productive. On the other hand the plural formed with <-en> eg oxen, children is not productive. We don't make new plurals with <-en>. Say the word "stepron" entered the English language (I generated it with a random pseudoword generator). I have a stepron, then I bought another stepron. If I asked someone what I now had, they'd almost certainly say "two steprons", demonstrating that this way of making plurals is productive. They would almost certainly not say "two stepronen", showing that way of making plurals is no longer productive. Booshank (talk) 14:26, 9 March 2025 (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.

Kelvin sign

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

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Change "~−700 to present" to "c. 700 BCE to present" JhonJhonII (talk) 15:50, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: According to the page's protection level you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. twisted. (user | talk | contribs) 16:21, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like he made so many of these requests that he managed to get autoconfirmed, haha Aston305 (talk) 16:24, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]