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Aaahhh I see what you mean. That aspect I hadn't really considered. A given noun has a sort of personalized choice of which version it goes with.
Plus Russian prepositions melding into the following...

Haha, well true, but not only is ко a real word that is used, it has the same meaning in every way. It IS the same thing really, just a modified realization of it.
For instance, only in speech, when...

That is so interesting how adding an unnecessary о breaks the very meaning :shock: !

Here's something I still haven't been able to pick out of hearing speech

к горке

How do Russians pronounce the first few sounds here?
Is it a double length г sound
or a к with a short breath...