Is it true that the Ku Klux Klan started the practice of spelling names that traditionally begin with "C" with "K" instead, like "Kody" for "Cody" or "Karl" for "Carl"?
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I believe that that would be a Keltic trick not a KKK trick. The Celts (Not Selt but Kelt) didn't actually use "c" as we use "c" it was a 'k' sound. C is actually a pretty worthless letter by itself. Other languages use C as "ch" thus church would be Curc, and crime would be krime and cease would be sease. It isn't too difficult to see immigrants to the English speaking world adopting the use of C for "ch" and K for the K sound of C and the S for the S sound of C.
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Of course not. The c vs k controversies have been around ever since the Old English days in the mid 5th century. Many words from the Greek were being introduced into the language, after the Saxon invasion. The name was constructed by combining the Greek "kyklos" (κυκλος,circle) with "clan". The old confederate soldiers who started it were bored after the war was over, and convinced several thugs in their town to participate in a reign of terror designed to show African Americans they weren't equal after all. Several groups of thugs and criminals adopted the name and tried to promote their own brand of power, but eventually were brought down by the law.
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I think not..take the name Karl, the Klan wasn't in Germany yet Germans spell their Carl as Karl. Ü
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They probably took that idea from someone else. Calvin Coolidge was a part of the KKK, and he had his name appear on the ballot like this: Kandidate Kalvin Koolidge
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i think karl is german
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