How the hell do you get 'Kernal" out of Colonel???

English is Germanic. Guess what word negger ~ a workhorse of a man, a plowman, he who works like a mule came to mean in this so called new world of "Western Civilization"?
Actually n-gger comes from n-ger which simply means black in Latin. It IS pronounced the same as there is no soft G in Latin. It's not even an infrequently used form of black I've been studying Latin and it appears all the time.
 
Furthermore, to borrow from Katt Williams, what is the point of the silent letter?

Why is knife spelled with a k? There is no other word spelled nife that I know of, so why add the k to it? It would be pronounced just the same without the k.
 
Furthermore, to borrow from Katt Williams, what is the point of the silent letter?

Why is knife spelled with a k? There is no other word spelled nife that I know of, so why add the k to it? It would be pronounced just the same without the k.
Yall are funny tonight but you're right :lol:
 
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Furthermore, to borrow from Katt Williams, what is the point of the silent letter?

Why is knife spelled with a k? There is no other word spelled nife that I know of, so why add the k to it? It would be pronounced just the same without the k.
my spelling bee word was ptarmigan.

 
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The silent K helps you with alfabetizing. If you dont put the K, then knife is in there with ninja, night, and narcotics. none of those match.
 
Actually n-gger comes from n-ger which simply means black in Latin. It IS pronounced the same as there is no soft G in Latin. It's not even an infrequently used form of black I've been studying Latin and it appears all the time.

No. Negro means the color of Black in Latin. Moreno and Morena is for men and women of African decent respectively in Spanish. Then with the first 4ooo enslaved Moors (Mauris) being shipped from Spain to Hispaniola in 15o6 our ancestors where considered property instead of people and referred to as Negros.
 
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you lazy and probably high - google has your answer:

The word "colonel" derives from the same root as the word "column" (Italian: colonna) and means "of a column", and, by implication, "commander of a column". The word "colonel" is therefore linked to the word "column" in a similar way that "brigadier" is linked to "brigade", although in English this relationship is not immediately obvious. By the end of the late medieval period, a group of "companies" was referred to as a "column" of an army.

Since the word is believed to derive from sixteenth-century Italian, it was presumably first used by Italian city states in that century. The first use of colonel as a rank in a national army was in the French "National Legions" (Légions nationales) created by King Francis I by his decree of 1534. Building on the military reforms of Louis XII's decree of 1509, he modernized the organization of the French royal army. Each colonel commanded a legion with a theoretical strength of six thousand men.
 
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