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Diktat and dictate - related words? So why the K?

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Tinker · 06/02/2009 14:17

I presume they are from the same root so why not dictat or diktate?

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bloss · 06/02/2009 15:30

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Tinker · 06/02/2009 20:20

So, from Latin to German and then word used in English?

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