He is captain of Company K of the Caribee Regiment" "Caribee?

E. Named Chali in the original; but it is to be noted that the ch of the Italian is pronounced as k in English.

If we did not know, for example, the occasion which added the word chouse to the English language, we have little doubt that the twofold analogy of form and meaning would have led etymologists to the German kosen, (with the very common softening of the k to ch,) and that the derivation would have been perfectly satisfactory to most minds.

Money was plenty among these excursive groups, and they were welcomed in Company K with effusive outbreaks by their less restive comrades.

For, against the use of k at the end of words from the learned languages, and against the u in many words in which Johnson used it, we have the authority, not only of general usage now, but of many grammarians who were contemporary with Johnson, and of more than a dozen lexicographers, ancient or modern, among whom is Walker himself.

To omit the k from such words as publick, or the u from such as superiour, is certainly no innovation; it is but ignorance that censures the general practice, under that name.

Sweet MLE K into SX they bore, Taking good care her monument to Y 10, And as her tomb was much 2 low B 4, They lately brought fresh bricks the walls to I 10.

Seriously, now," he said, halting in front of the table, "what with books and papers and drives about the country, I do not find the days too long, though I seldom see any one, except when I go over to K for my mail.

K before n is silent; as in knave, know, knuckle.

The tenth edition of Burn's Grammar, dated 1810, says, "It has become customary to omit k after c at the end of dissyllables and trisyllables, &c. as music, arithmetic, logic; but the k is retained in monosyllables; as, back, deck, rick, &c."P. 25.