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"KS" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... peculiar quality of s, that it may be sounded before all consonants, except x and z, in which s is comprised, x being only ks, and z a hard or gross s. This s is therefore termed by grammarians suae potestatis litera; the reason of which the learned Dr. Clarke erroneously supposed to be, that in some words it might be doubled at pleasure. Thus we ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson |
Words linked to "KS" : Kansas River, Chisholm Trail, Kansas City, US, Abilene, Topeka, American state, capital of Kansas, the States, Dodge City, Hays, United States, Arkansas, Sunflower State, republican, USA, Arkansas River, Midwest, Republican River, Lawrence, Neosho, United States of America, U.S., Neosho River, Wichita, Kaw River, Salina, America, midwestern United States, Kansas, U.S.A., middle west |
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