Uh, okay, might as well add another long-standing myth ... "K" also stands for
"Kreidezeit," or "chalk-time" in German, an informal equivalent of "K for
Kreta." Wonderful to know all the other armchair scholars who regard the
mental exercise of imagining word origins, instead of simply looking it up in
a history of stratigraphy ... But that would take all our fun out of it! -- kp