deliberate misspellings

Peter A. McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Wed Mar 28 00:38:34 UTC 2001


I was never quite sure what the k in this one was supposed to signify.  The
German spelling of "America"?  One of the k's in KKK?

Peter Mc.

--On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:41 AM +0800 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> For an earlier politically motivated misspelling, cf. "Amerika"
> (among anti-Vietnam War activists from the late '60's).
>
> larry



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu



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