Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Stupid English Language

Why the hell is "knee" spelled with a "k" but "neck" is not?

11 comments:

Webmiztris said...

Because.

Paula said...

I don't now.

Anonymous said...

"Neck" IS spelled with a k. :-)

Kos said...

Wiseacre...

Granny Snark said...

I don't know, it's just knot.

Don said...

The silent K is what we get for standardizing the spelling of a Germanic language just before we stopped pronouncing it. Imagine what "I caught a knight coughing up in a trough" sounded like before dictionaries.

Jodie Kash said...

Took me years to get the line in Monty P's Holy Grail, "You silly, English K-nigit".

Natsthename said...

Eye dew knot no. English is stoooopid.

JD said...

I just tell people that my name is spelled "K-J-A-N-E" and that the K is silent.

Deadman said...

You have a knack for getting your knickers in a knot about the silliest kthings...

Unknown said...

This reminds me, for no reason at all of the PG Wodehouse novel "Leave it to Psmith," in which, of course, the "P" in the character's name is silent, but people don't realize that, and continually address him as "Peasmith." Of course that should get old very quickly, but for some reason it doesn't.