Ka'bah
cube-shaped shrine in the centre of the great mosque in Mecca towards which all Muslims face in prayer; the shrine is not worshipped but used as the focal point of the worship of GodKabbalah Kaiser Chiefs
band from Leeds (no "the") Kaizer Chiefs
football club from Soweto Kaiser Wilhelm II
last German emperor and king of Prussia Kajagoogoo
80s popsters best known for their No 1 hit Too Shy kapok
Kara Suu
(not Korasuv) town in Uzbekistan Kashmir
adjective Kashmiri; but cashmere fabric Kasparov, Garry
former world chess champion, born in Azerbaijan in 1963 Kathmandu
capital of Nepal Kazakhstan
adjective Kazakh kebabs
a doner kebab is made using meat from a rotating spit; shish kebabs are made from skewared cubes of meat Kefalonia
not Cephalonia Keir Hardie, James
(1856-1915) first leader of the Labour party Kellogg's Corn Flakes
but cornflakes in general key
a useful headline word, but overused keyring key stage 1, 2
etc (education) KFC
not Kentucky Fried Chicken K-For
Nato peacekeeping force in Kosovo Khachaturian, Aram
(1903-78) Armenian composer khaki Khrushchev, Nikita
(1894-1971) Soviet leader kibbutz
plural kibbutzim kibosh kick-off
noun; kick off verb kick-start
noun or verb Kilimanjaro
not Mount Kilimanjaro kilogram/s, kilojoule/s, kilometre/s, kilowatt/s
abbreviate as kg, kJ, km, kW; the abbreviation for kilometres an hour is km/h King Edward potatoes King's College, Cambridge
with comma King's College London
no comma King's Cross King's Lynn Kings Road
a road in Chelsea, west London; try not to call it "the Kings Road".
no apostrophe, although until 1830 it was a private royal road Kingston upon Hull
normally just Hull Kingston upon Thames Kirkcaldy
not Kirkaldy, a town in Fife, not Fyfe kir royale kissogram Kitemark
TM on items approved by the British Standards Institution KitKat km/h
kilometres an hour (not kph) kneejerk
reaction Knightley, Keira
actor knockout
noun; knock out verb knots
measure of nautical miles per hour; do not say "knots per hour" knowhow knowledgable Knowles, Beyoncé koala
not "koala bear" Koh-i-noor
diamond koi
not "koi carp" Kolkata
formerly Calcutta Korean names
like Hong Kong and Taiwanese names, Korean names are written in two parts with a hyphen, eg Kim Jong-il, Kim Dae-jung; on second mention they become Kim, etc (except in leading articles: Mr Kim, etc) Kosovo, Kosovans
adjective Kosovan, not Kosovar kowtow krona
plural kronor (Sweden)
krona plural kronur (Iceland)
krone plural kroner (Denmark)
krone plural kroner (Norway) krugerrands Ku Klux Klan kukri
Gurkha knife kung fu KwaZulu-Natal Kyrgyzstan
adjective Kyrgyz Kyrie Eleison
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