Grove Spelling Dictionary
a hard c

kinquapin

graft: letters 1, 2
Writtenchinquapin

CHINK-uh-pin

The ch at the front is the ordinary English ch of chin and cheese, not the k of chorus. The word came into English from an Algonquian language rather than from Greek, and it never had the Greek letters that make ch say k.

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