Legal Tweet of the Day

The initial question is good, too.

Eager to learn the answer. I thought it was because "C" is for cookie. That's always been good enough for me. pic.twitter.com/X0jpuPONRS

— ContractsProf Blog (@KProfsBlog) September 13, 2021

Prof. Hamann's article is here; @KProfsBlog is run by Prof. Jeremy Telman.

Comments

[ah....Clem]

Just refrain from discussing any triple contracts. Some folks might take it the wrong way.

[Doug Heffernan]

"Why" questions are for children and philosophers, mostly because quite often there are no ultimate answers to be found. This doesn't mean, however, that these questions aren't important.

The guesses at the following links are as close as anybody is likely to get;

https://nickkam.com/2010/06/22/the-k-in-contract/
https://ask.metafilter.com/78690/What-is-the-origin-and-reasoning-for-abbreviating-contract-as-K

Store bought cookies aren't as good as they used to be, even among the premium brands. They've mostly been cheapified due to relentless cost cutting. But people are still pounding them down, so I guess that the reduced quality is unimportant to most consumers and the choice to sacrifice quality over profits was the "right" decision.

[PeteRR]

My girlfriend is a trained baker. She said a big part of the problem is cheap butter. It ruins the taste of the cookie.

[ah....Clem]

I thought the butter was replaced by partially hydrogenated vegetable oil a long time ago.

[PeteRR]

My girlfriend is a trained baker. She said a big part of the problem is cheap butter. It ruins the taste of the cookie.

[Ketawa]

In some branches of the military, Contracting Officer is abbreviated as KO instead of CO. I always assumed this was to differentiate it from Commanding Officer.

[ThePublius]

Good one.

[ThanksForTheFish]

Correct. And contractor is called KTR.

[Dr-P]

no contractor is KBR - Kellogg Brown and Root

[James Pollock]

Your math is off.

ONE contractor is KBR - Kellogg Brown and Root.

You were only off by one though. Close enough for contract work.

[Longtobefree]

For the same reason "K" is for Strikeout in baseball?

[ThePublius]

"He had already chosen S to stand for sacrifice in a box score, so he used K for a strikeout, since that is the last letter in “struck,” which was at the time the most popular way to refer to a batter’s being out after three strikes."

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-k-stand-for-a-strikeout-in-baseball

[The Turtle Dove]

After reading the article's array of possibilities, I'm sticking with my preconcieved notion: that it's from the German. (Which a German speaker would hear as "ka.")

Mr. D.

[James Pollock]

In baseball, K's are strikeouts.

[James Pollock]

I should have known that that one was too obvious.

[The Turtle Dove]

In cereal, K's are special.

Mr. D.

[ThePublius]

Similarly, why is Vocational School shortened to Voke? And why is canine shortened to K-9 (phonetics, I guess, for the latter).

[ah....Clem]

Same reason why in Morse code the letter V is
..._
after the intro to Beethoven's Vth Symphony.

[rpewick]

My first impression is that k is a matter of camouflage. The letter c does not visually standout but k does.

[James Pollock]

"C" isn't for "cookie". C's are for "cruddy students".

[KenveeB]

I always assumed it wasn't C because C was copyright. I never knew why it was K instead, though.

[Dr-P]

I assumed C was for Constitutional law