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Kai vs Khi - What's the difference?

kai | khi |

As a noun khi is

air, gas, vapor, steam.

kai

English

Noun

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  • food
  • * 1995 , Graeme Williams, The soc.culture.new-zealand FAQ
    • Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate.
  • * 2003 , "RK", Maori TV'' (on newsgroup ''nz.general )
    • i.e. they'll spend the first four hours enthusiastic as can be, then get bored, want some kai , go down to the local fish and chip shop & bottle store & spend the rest of the episode telling drunken stories of how they used to steal from the "pakeha that owned the store on the corner" and about days spent down at the social welfare office.
  • * 2003 , "Carmen", Is there really a censor in NZ?!'' (on newsgroup ''nz.general )
    • Got to go now and get some kai .
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    khi

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uppercase ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
  • * 1898 , Claude Reignier Conder, The Hittites and Their Language , W. Blackwood and Sons, page 249:
    • It is known, from the existence in his time1 of the Delphic tripod, that all these letters existed in 480 B.C. ; but on that monument the Khi'' and ''Psi differ from the forms used later.
  • * 1963 , Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics , Mouton, page 404:
    • The letters upsilon'', ''phi'', ''khi'' , ''psi'', ''? were Greek additions
  • * 2006 , Jonathan M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World , Blackwell Publishing, page 57:
    • Greek scripts display notable local characteristics — principally with regard to the shape of letters but also in the matter of the phonetic values attributed to signs such as san'', ''sigma'', ''khi'' , and ''psi .
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