These days, not so silent k's in Republican.

I laughed so hard!

Oh gosh I read to much stuff about the US. I instantly understood the three K thing. I'm German.

There is a large difference between the KKK and an average Republican, though the joke is still hilarious.

"THIS" is the content I come here for!

You sir, win all the things.

3 silent k's heh see what you did thee.

The K's influence how you pronounce the N.

At one point, the KN was pronounced with a different infflection, I was taught, and we keep the K so we know it's not "not". OK, that got weird, never mind....

It's funny because it's true.

That's a good one! LMAO!

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Funny about the Repub part. The interesting thing is that those k's used to be pronounced. Mostly, English is not one language. It is a collision of languages. History, ...an Island nation gets invaded by the Roman empire. They get bogged down for hundreds of years with logistical nightmares (yep...those ight's used to have all the letter's pronounced also) and a populace that was not just going to lay down and get walked over....civilization and superior military tactics be damned. Eventually as formidable as the Romans were (the Latin and Greek in our English comes from them) they get tired and leave. Enter nearly everyone else in Europe to invade due to the power vacuum of a failed military dictatorship. The Saxons (our German and profanity) and Angles (from where we get our language's name spelled with an E instead) Danes (where we get all the kn's with silent consonants) , Normans (French) and Brittany...Britons (more French). We all gotta talk and do business don't we?

Oh, good grief >< Didn't get the 'three silent k's in Republican' one until I started scrolling down.

Haha!

For all you guys spreading false information, go back to newsmax.

We don't get taught this, but the ck ending combo is a visual cue to signal a short preceding vowel sound. Hence, duck, truck, muck, mock, etc.

oh my....

But Republican has no k... and I just dumb??

Hahahahhaha

I actually said "re-pu-bli-can" out loud really slowly to figure out where the K's go. I get it now.

#3 is only in American English, though....

Lol!

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LOL!!!!!!!!!

you should try to real welsh

HA

Beautiful.

them 3k's in republican. I dun reckon you's confused. There ain't no k's in republic ooooooh

Yeah... That was a democrate group.

A nugget from Wikipedia: The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced in 1918 by Representative Leonidas C. Dyer, a Republican from St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States House of Representatives as H.R. 11279. It was intended to establish lynching as a federal crime. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress and passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on January 26, 1922, but its passage was halted in the Senate by a filibuster by Southern Democrats, who formed a powerful block. Southern Democrats justified their opposition to the bill by arguing that lynchings were a response to rapes and proclaiming that lynchings were an issue that should be left for states to deal with.

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Not suppose to be funny... you dolt.

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but... there's no k's in"republican"

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You do know the KKK was founded by and still supported by Democrats.