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ker-

an unstressed syllable prefixed to onomatopoeic and other expressive words, usually forming adverbs or interjections:
kerflop; kerplunk; ker-splosh.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of ker-¹

Perhaps from Scots dialect car-, cur-, currie- (as in carfuffle, carwhuffle “to disarrange,” carnaptious “i��ٲ��,” curriebuction “a confused gathering, etc.”), based on car, earlier ker “left (hand or side),” from Scots Gaelic cearr “wrong, awkward, left-handed” (compare Middle Irish cerr “crooked, maimed”); variants without r probably reflect forms in r -less dialects

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KER also found that a venti iced caramel macchiato costs 8.4% more than it did two months ago, while a venti caffe latte costs about 5.5% more than it used to.

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Remaking Public Housing: With a focus on affordability, community, convenience and light, the architect Liu Thai Ker replaced Singapore’s squalid slums with spacious high-rises.

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“Taiwan doesn’t have many natural resources,” Morris Ker, the chair of the newly created microelectronics department at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University told the students.

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In his presentation, Ker gave another example of the industry’s indispensability.

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When Taiwan’s worst earthquake in a quarter-century hit in April, factory workers were evacuated but quickly returned — a sign, Ker said, of the manufacturing hub’s resilience.

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