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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why use C and K in socks when they are pronounced the same?

New spelling: Sokks

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nah, gotta go with soks - can't have that redundant k in there!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Socc is the correct spelling now, because its "soccer" not Sokker (or Soker).

This is a hill I am willing to die on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Language evolves over time to become shortened for convenience.

Therefore sox is now the correct spelling. You all are using archaic spelling variations. Sox is always plural. I'm sure this will cause no confusion.

On a less anarchist note, spelling wasn't standardized until the early 1900s.

So up until then, sox, soccs, socs, sokks, soks, and socks were all valid ways to refer to foot panties.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Foot panties!! This is now canon, someone call Merriam-Webster!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] Klear 2 points 8 months ago

Yup. Don't want to risk a third K getting in there...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Of for those from Boston: Sahks