Why is the poker combination of ace and king sometimes called Anna Kournikova? Detailed answer

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Why is the poker combination of ace and king sometimes called Anna Kournikova?

Anna Kournikova has not won a single adult professional singles tournament in her sports career. Poker players have named an ace and king (AK) combination after her, as she looks beautiful, but rarely wins.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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How did slang (jargon) appear?

For example, slang can be created by combining several words, for example, scab, shortening words (mike, ok), onomatopoeia (boom, fuck), borrowing from foreign languages (samurai, driver), and also by analogy (sew, take away ).

Different types of jargon arise for different reasons and under different conditions. One of the common ways is the emergence of new words and phrases in one professional group. For example, students say "unsuccessful", "spur". Motorists call their cars "four", "nine".

But it should be remembered that often slang words used by one group may have a different meaning in other groups. Some conditions accelerate the emergence of new words. For example, the formation of new groups containing different segments of the population and representatives of different nationalities leads to the rapid emergence of new slang. As, for example, in the armed forces: "woki-toki", "AWOL", "demobilization".

Sometimes a new word comes up with one person, and it is picked up by the rest. In most cases, new expressions that were once related to slang eventually find their way into dictionaries.

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