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140. Num8er5

The Allusionist

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Roman Numerals in the Super Bowl

K is the greek letter that looks like an elongated x. A modern use of k doesn't even refer to the greek k kapper. In european languages in general, there are weird words like cileastic which sort of means milinarian, or apocalyptic. Forcilo, the common metric prefix, it is, of course, switched to a k.

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