Kappa (/ˈkæpə/; uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ϰ; Greek: κάππα, káppa) is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive IPA: [k] sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, Kʹ has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter kaph .
In modern scholarly transliteration of Ancient Greek, ⟨κ⟩ will usually be rendered as ⟨k⟩, and the vowel combinations ⟨αι, οι, ει, ου⟩ as ⟨ai, oi, ei, ou⟩ respectively. The letters ⟨θ⟩ and ⟨φ⟩ are generally rendered as ⟨th⟩ and ⟨ph⟩; ⟨χ⟩ as either ⟨ch⟩ or ⟨kh⟩; and word-initial ⟨ρ⟩ as ⟨rh⟩.
Potassium (K – Kalium)
Kappa is widely used on Twitch in chats to signal you are being sarcastic or ironic, are trolling, or otherwise playing around with someone.
Cassava is referred to as Tapioca in Indian English usage. Cassava is called kappa or maracheeni in Malayalam.
For regular uses, it was mostly C that was used. Thus, once Latin speakers came in contact with the Greek world, they transliterated the Greek K as C. Romance languages and modern scholarship have largely followed that tradition. How different is the modern Greek alphabet from the ancient one?
Kappa (uppercase/lowercase Κ κ) is the letter of the Greek alphabet used to represent the "k" sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 20. Letters that came from it include the Roman K and Cyrillic К.
The letter "K" in a circle is a certification mark indicating Kosher products certified by OK Laboratories, of which the administrator is Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, succeeding his father Rabbi Bernard Levy.
The chemical symbol K comes from kalium, the Mediaeval Latin for potash, which may have derived from the arabic word qali, meaning alkali. Potassium is a soft, silvery-white metal, member of the alkali group of the periodic chart.
Not only the C, but also the letter K, in the Roman alphabet, was pronounced like a K (again, hard or voiceless velar plosive). Like the word-initial K in English, the Latin K was rarely used.
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Old English inherited the grand old tradition of using gamma, shaped like a C, for the K sound and ignoring kappa. The letter K was reintroduced much later when we started borrowing more Greek words. In those cases, we used the original kappa to represent the K sound.
In the words that came from Latin, the “K” sound was represented by the letter C. In the words that came from Greek, the “K” sound was represented by the letter K. And so it has remained ever since. We still use C and K to represent the same sound.
K was used before A, Q before V (the shape U appeared later), and C elsewhere.
Later, the Kappas asked their wives to act as hostesses and plan activities for visiting wives and children. Many such groups remained together and organized permanent groups, calling themselves "Kappa Wives" or "Kappa Alpha Psi Silhouettes".
The name was officially changed to Kappa Alpha Psi on a resolution adopted at the Grand Chapter Meeting in December 1914. This change became effective April 15, 1915.
Since most of you guessed it right, Kappa means Tapioca - we'd like to tell you little about this gorgeous Plant and it's history. Tapioca doesn't grow on trees like fruit or in gardens like a vegetable. Instead, it's a starch that's made from the root of a plant whose scientific name is Manihot esculenta.
A negative kappa represents agreement worse than expected, or disagreement. Low negative values (0 to −0.10) may generally be interpreted as “no agreement”. A large negative kappa represents great disagreement among raters. Data collected under conditions of such disagreement among raters are not meaningful.
Documented procedures of greeting Kappas have been established in other Fraternity publications. There is need to re-emphasize their appropriateness. The acceptable greeting is Brother (followed by name last). Communication is something that must be done at all levels of the Fraternity.