Talk:K

message: There's no mention of the lower-case K that has a loop in it instead of the top diagonal. The articles for a and g talk about both versions of their respective lower-case characters.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.30.14.50 (talk) 02:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I know that commenting on a 14 year-old post and expecting for a reply is hopeless, so i’ll leave this as a note to other editors: 1. Lowercase letters have been invented to be written quickly so the lowercase k with a loop is only used in running writing. I can see why this person might have got confused here. 2. The proper lowercase ‘k’ is mentioned sufficiently enough times along with the proper lowercase ‘a’ and ‘g’ in their equivalent pages. Iamamodforjellymario (talk) 10:31, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Looped K

message: Somebody please fix the top of this article; it looks very DIRTY.
:It does, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell is wrong.   — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:25, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Go to "edit this page" and study the way it was typed; and that should give you a clue. 66.245.124.202 20:27, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: If it was dirty before, it looks like it is completely fixed now. Iamamodforjellymario (talk) 10:33, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing the top of this article 

message: Someone changed the phrase "Not surprisingly, several languages use characters with sharp angles to indicate the sound /k/ " to "Surprisingly..." I guess this is subjective, but to me it came as no surprise when I realised it was the case. I thought the Maluma/Takete distinction  was widely known, but it isn't even mentioned in Wikipedia - perhaps because one needs copyright to reproduce the figures. Anyhow, if no one has any objections, I suggest we remove the adverb altogether to "Several languages use characters with sharp angles to indicate the sound /k/ ", and then it's up to the reader to become surprised or not.
: I agree; I'd been considering doing this myself. FourlopadDALiSZooohfour 12:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maluma and Takete 

message: k is also thermal conductivity in physics. i would edit it myself but have :Unsigned -->
:Done.--58.104.75.186 07:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  k is also thermal conductivity 

message: Why the hell do some writers try to ruin the only perfect letter in our God-Forsaken alphabet by making it also have an s sound?Cameron Nedland 21:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Erm...cyclops doesn't have a K in it. --Brain 00:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps he meant to post this on the letter C? Shinobu 19:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  K in cyclops 

message: Should we add also some info about cyrillic K?
:Done. Shinobu 19:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyrillic К 

message: In some video games K means 1,000 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Full Throttle FURY (talk • contribs) 16:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: K stands for kilo (Latin for thousand, I think). SalaSkan 22:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

text: As well, K is the only Scrabble tile with point value 5. Should I add that to the article? ZtObOr 23:46, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  K in games 

message: 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)
thread_title:  No productive "Hard C" in Germanic languages other than English? 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on K. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20150626134615/http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50124982?query_type=word&queryword=k&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=1&search_id=h5Sx-nTaC9b-24269&hilite=50124982 to http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50124982?query_type=word&queryword=k&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=1&search_id=h5Sx-nTaC9b-24269&hilite=50124982
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
 Link rot had set in before url was archived. Worldbruce (talk) 22:22, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This article has a paragraph saying:
In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all used to represent the sounds /k/ and /g/ (which were not differentiated in writing). Of these, Q was used to represent /k/ or /g/ before a rounded vowel, K before /a/, and C elsewhere. Later, the use of C and its variant G replaced most usages of K and Q. K survived only in a few fossilized forms such as Kalendae, "the calends".[4]
Please note that this paragraph of the article needs to be improved by including why B/P and D/T didn't get a similar story. Georgia guy (talk) 00:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please watch this paragraph 

message: "It is the fifth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 0.8% in words." 
However, since English has over all a heavily French & Latin borrowed wordstock, this is not wholly true. Once borrowed are discarded, K is more often as in, kick, kite, king, kiss, etc, (which if french, would have been, quique, quite, quingue, quisse, etc. or something alike.)  Yoandri Dominguez Garcia 03:30, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no reason to exclude borrowed words. —Granger (talk · contribs) 12:20, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something misleading here 

message: Change MESURE to MEASURE in the sentence 'K is the unit symbol for the kelvin, used to mesure thermodynamic temperature.' Dave suv (talk) 01:38, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done JTP (talk • contribs) 01:55, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 August 2019 

message: At present the article Potash uses the standalone letter "K", perfectly correctly but without explanation, in the "History" section. I want to link it to this article's "K is the chemical symbol for the element potassium," etc. but this would need an WP:anchor. Thus, may  please be inserted adjoining the piece of text here, then I can add the link in the Potash article. Thanks.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 11:31, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: .  Such a link would run afoul of MOS:EGG.  There's no apparent use for linking to the article about the letter K from an article that uses it in one specific way.  If you think it's unclear in that article, you can simply add a bit of explanatory text instead. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 14:32, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: OK I'll think about that instead.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 14:53, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 November 2019 

message: 2409:4052:2007:360C:BC38:46CA:3A26:9DC7 (talk) 05:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Jamietw (talk) 11:12, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 5 April 2020 

message: The second-last bullet point is
* When expressing amounts of money, $20K means twenty thousand dollars.
This is incorrect: it should be a lower case k, which is the shorthand notation for kilo, the SI multiplier for 1,000. Upper case K is the "binary thousand", i.e. 210 = 1024.
Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 02:49, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other usage 

message: the letter k is used in many words and is also used instead of the letter c Dancemacha (talk) 09:17, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to be already mentioned. – Thjarkur (talk) 11:04, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 July 2020 

message: In the Ancestors, descendants, and siblings section, turn Ḱ ḱ into Ḱ ḱ (e.g. link the lowercase) and Ǩ ǩ into Ǩ ǩ (e.g. do the same thing). 50.196.175.13 (talk) 21:24, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , added commas to separate the links. TGHL ↗ 🍁 22:52, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 25 May 2021 

message: Worth mentioning that Josef K were also a Scottish post-punk band active between 1979 and 1982. 37.235.43.27 (talk) 07:48, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Unrelated to this page. (CC) Tbhotch™ 21:15, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Josef K 

message: This does not give me any information about what I was searching for so they better fix it! 76.170.32.23 (talk) 21:03, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your comment.  What were you searching for?  If it was some other topic called K such as a band or film, they are listed in K (disambiguation), which is linked at the top of the K article. Certes (talk) 21:22, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This wiki page