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[–] CurlyMoustache 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

New spelling: Sokks

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] Mamertine 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] CurlyMoustache 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

Of for those from Boston: Sahks