#11
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(the letter ‘K’ comes from the greek letter ‘K’)
(which was taken from the semitic ‘kap’)
(the symbol for an ‘open hand’)
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(this in turn was likely adapted by ‘semites’ who had lived in ‘egypt’)
(from the hiero-glyph for ‘hand’ representing ‘D’ in the egyptian word for ‘hand’ –> d-r-t.)
(the ‘semites’ evidently assigned it the sound value /k/ instead, because their word for ‘hand’ started with that sound)
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(in ‘modern-day english slang’, the word ‘k’ is used as a substitute for the abbreviation ‘OK’ (or ‘okay’))
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