[Ads-l] orthographic symbolism

[James A. Landau]

On Fri, 27 May 2016 13:33:21 Zone+0000 Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote

>A rumor or legend has lingered in the South, not especially credible, to 
>the effect that business establishments in the 1950s and 1960s would 
>employ innovative "k" spellings to signal their membership in or 
>approval of the Ku Klux Klan: "Krispy Kreme," "Kwik Mart," and the like.

For what its worth, Krispy Kreme was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1934.

- James A. Landau

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