In some regions of this nation, I've noticed, people can't end words that end in "T" without substituting "CK(S)." Sometimes the "T" in the middle suffers the same fate. "Wal-Marcks," and "Picksburgh," for instance. It's not a speech impediment, it's a learned behavior that seems to be localized to specific communities, and it's not my imagination, my co-workers have noticed it.
A woman came in recently looking for information about a small town in Kansas. I had to ask her at least five times to repeat herself before I realised that when she asked me about "K'nook" she wanted to know about Chanute, and was not in fact trying to find rude ways of accusing me of being born much further north than I actually was.
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