Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — That Troublesome K. [ARTICLE]

That Troublesome K.

There have been many estimable people whose great stumbling-block has been orthography, and it has sometimes proved an almost insurmountable obstacle. There was once in Eastern Tennessee a judge well versed in the law, but entirely self-educated, who had this same obstacle of orthography to contend with all his days. In early life he had lived in Knoxville, and for a long time insisted upon spelling the name Noxville. His friends at last educated him to the point of adding the K; so thoroughly, in fact, did he learn this lesson that when, a few years afterward, he removed to Nashville, nothing could prevent him from spelling the name Knashville. After a few years’ residence there, the Judge moved again, this time to Mifrfreesboro. One day he sat down to write his first letter from this place. He scratched his head in perplexity for a moment, and finally pyp! jlityipH • “Well, I’ll give it up! How in the world can they spell the name of this place with a ‘K?’ ”