Talk:List of English words containing Q not followed by U

message: Comparing this list to a similar list in The Scrabble Book by Gyles Brandreth (), I noticed multiple words that appeared in that list but are not in this list. That list claims to be sourced  to the 1983 editions of Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, Webster's New International Dictionary (Second Edition), Webster's Third New International Dictionary, The Random House Dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary and The Oxford English Dictionary. Unfortunately, it doesn't specify which word comes from which dictionary, and I don't have access to the dictionaries in question (either 1983 or current editions) to verify. However, maybe somebody else does and wishes to look into these further. The words in question are:
bathqol - a divine revelation in Hebrew tradition
qaneh - an ancient Hebrew measure of length
qantar - a Mediterranean unit of weight
qasab - an ancient Near Eastern unit of length
qasaba - an ancient Arabian measure of area
qobar - a dry fog of the Upper Nile
qs - the plural of the letter q
qt - quiet; usually used in the phrase 'on the qt'
qvint - a Danish weight
shoq - an East Indian tree
shurqee - a south-easterly wind of the Persian Gulf
trinq - an oracular statement in Rabelias' Pantagruel
zaqqum - a tree with bitter fruit, mentioned in the Koran
zindiq - a heretic extremely unfaithful to Islam
Lowercaserho (talk) 20:36, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: From memory, I think I've seen qantar in my Scrabble dictionary (could be wrong) and qs and qt definitely aren't in (I think you'd spell it q's). I'm also fairly sure I'd have played qvint had I seen it in there, though not sure enough to say it definitely isn't in there. I'll check it against my dictionary when I have access to a faster computer.--Launchballer 06:56, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible additional words 

message: Normally in English the QU combination is pronounced /kw/, or sometimes /k/, and is followed by a vowel. Maybe this article should include a sentence or two about words where a U after a Q represents a full vowel, such as qū, qurūsh, Quran, or whatever the various dictionaries may contain. While such words are technically outside the scope of the list as defined by its title, they are usually terms borrowed from languages (in these cases Chinese and Arabic) where the Q is an ordinary consonant that may or may not be followed by U, like almost all the words currently in the list are. --Theurgist (talk) 23:38, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Such cases may be interesting, but they don't seem to fall within the scope of the title of this article (see discussion at (#Qur'an should be in here above).  By the way, using "q" to transcribe Hebrew alphabet ק or Arabic alphabet ق is historically correct -- all three have a common origin. AnonMoos (talk) 15:20, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Words with QU where the U represents a full vowel 

message: ...is the name of an Arabic country. It begins with Q not followed by U. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 14:24, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  
Qatar...
 

message: so the page says there are 4422 such words, one of the photo captions says there are 72 such words, and the chart lists "82" of them.  what thu...??
for starters, are the 82 here just a RANDOM SAMPLING of the 4422 or what?  or are the rest all PROPER NOUNS, such that only 82 are considered fully "incorporated" into english?  i notice that neither iraq nor qatar on the list, for example, despite being singled out elsewhere on the page.
and what's with 72 vs 82?  is one or other a typo?  2601:19C:527F:7890:74B6:FD6C:2AC9:78A4 (talk) 19:44, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  how many? 

message: why is the single most common word of all missing from this list?!
prereq, perq, and tranq are recognized by certain dictionaries, yet only the relatively rare (imho) "tranq" makes the list?
perq and tranq are usually respelled with a -k (perk, trank); i am not sure how many dictionaries actually list the q versions (maybe calling them "dated" or "obsolete"?).  but surely "prereq" is in most!  it does NOT get respelled, afaik, and is a wildly common word, at least in US english.  i dare say it might be the MOST common word of the entire LIST (72, 82, 4422, w/e), were it included!!
i wanna "be bold" and add it, but surely there must be some reason it was considered and left out, so i will ask here.  how on earth is "tranq" on this list and not "prereq"?!?!   2601:19C:527F:7890:74B6:FD6C:2AC9:78A4 (talk) 19:44, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  prereq!