TK

TK means “to come”. You’ll typically see it as “TKTK” or “TKTKTK”, as a simple way to search (i.e., ⌘+f) for details that haven’t been written yet. I use it when drafting blog posts to skip over a sentence or section I want to come back to write later, to avoid losing momentum. I didn’t learn this today, but within the last year or two (not too sure where!); I was just reminded by [seeing it in print]1 in my library’s edition of Jez Burrow’s Dictionary Stories, which is otherwise lovely so far. To be fair, I get it: it’s in a footnote where the “TK” is taking the place of a page number, which I imagine is one of the last things to be solidified in a print book after all of the typesetting has taken place. ↩︎