deliberate misspellings

Drew Danielson drew.danielson at CMU.EDU
Wed Mar 28 12:41:47 UTC 2001


Margaret Lee wrote:
>
> I've also seen the spelling "Amerikkka" written by young African
> Americans in the late '80's, early '90's, with kkk standing for Ku
> Klux Klan.

This is my impression as well.  Some of my (non-African American)
acquaintances still use "Amerikkka" regularly in written discourse.



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