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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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The letter k is very special because we never write two k: after each other no matter how short vowel is<br />

except in a few words: kökkenmödding och hakkors.<br />

When it should be two k we instead usually writes ck:<br />

Right<br />

vacker<br />

spackel<br />

mack<br />

should be right<br />

vakker<br />

spakkel<br />

makk<br />

If there happens to be a short vowel sound followed by something that should be spelled: ks. We usually<br />

writes: x, and sometimes cc:<br />

right ought to be right, or even better, or at least<br />

sax saks sakks sacks<br />

lax laks lakks lacks<br />

successiv suksessiv sukksessiv sucksessiv<br />

But for that "rule" you can also find exceptions such as: bensinmacks.<br />

And when a word that ends in two equal consonants is merged with another word that begins with the same<br />

consonant, we, completely illogical, remove one of these:<br />

Basic words right ought to be right<br />

kall + lager kallager kalllager<br />

metall + legering metallegering metalllegering<br />

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