Ok, I am sick of custom car companies replacing C with K... Don’t they know the origins or do they not care?

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K replacing c[ edit

Replacing the letter c with k in the first letter of a word came into use by the Ku Klux Klan during its early years in the mid-to-late 19th century. The concept is continued today within the group.

Barcelona squat and anarchist centre, labelled “OKUPA Y RESISTE”

In the 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, leftists, particularly the Yippies, sometimes used Amerika rather than America in referring to the United States.[1][2][3][4][5] It is still used as a political statement today.[6][7] It is likely that this was originally an allusion to the German spelling of the word, and intended to be suggestive of Nazism, a hypothesis that the Oxford English Dictionary supports.

In broader usage, the replacement of the letter c with k denotes general political skepticism about the topic at hand and is intended to discredit or debase the term in which the replacement occurs.[8]

A similar usage in Italian, Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese[citation needed] is to write okupa rather than ocupa (often on a building or area occupied by squatters,[9] referring to the name adopted by okupación activist groups), which is particularly remarkable because the letter “k” is rarely found in either Spanish, Portuguese or Italian words.[citation needed] It stems from Spanish anarchist and punk movements which used “k” to signal rebellion.[10]

Replacing “c” with “k” was at the centre of a Monty Python joke from the Travel Agent sketch. Eric Idle has an affliction that makes him pronounce the letter C as a B, as in “bolour” instead of “colour.” Michael Palin asks him if he can say the letter K? Idle replies that he can, and Palin suggests that he spell words with a K instead of C. Idle replies, “what, spell bolour with a K? Kolour. Oh! I never thought of that before! What a silly bunt!”[11]

The video game franchise Mortal Kombat is another example of this trend.

KKK replacing c or k[ edit ]

A common satiric usage of the letters KKK is the spelling of America as Amerikkka, alluding to the Ku Klux Klan, drawing to a perceived notion of an underlying or inherent racism in American society. The earliest known usage of Amerikkka recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1970, in a journal called Black World. Presumably, this was an extrapolation from the then already widespread Amerika.[clarification needed][citation needed]

The spelling Amerikkka came into greater use after the 1990 release of the gangsta rap album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted by Ice Cube, also used by rapper Spice 1 for his album AmeriKKKa’s Nightmare and by shock rock band Undercover Slut for their album Amerikkka Macht Frei.[citation needed]

The letters KKK have been inserted into several other words and names, to indicate similar perceived racism, oppression or corruption. Examples include: