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For journalists, the placeholder typically taught is "TK" for fact-checking later, as in "The youngest president was TK years old."
by lionyo 9y ago
For journalists, the placeholder typically taught is "TK" for fact-checking later, as in "The youngest president was TK years old."
- jwilk 9y agoWhy "TK"?
- jwilliams 9y agoStands for "to come" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing) Theory is that TK was a less common letter combination than TC.
- random_comment 9y ago(The agony of using 'TC' when you code in tcl, use tcpip, or are working with terminal control code)
- jcheng 9y agoIn case anyone is curious, like I was: $ grep -i tc /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l 1055 $ grep -i tk /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l 40