deliberate misspellings

[Margaret Lee]

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.

Margaret Lee


--- "Peter A. McGraw" <pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> wrote:
> 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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Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
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 & University Editor
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