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Post #569213 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 11:12 PM

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I think a lot of the pre-1940s occurrences of the word might be misspellings of the famous story "Rikki Tikki Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling. I often come across references where the double "kk" has been dropped to a single "k".

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2010-12-17 23:14 ]