Talk:Q

message: Its name in English is cue, occasionally spelled cu.
WHAT?  I have never experienced this in my life, as a native English speaker and self-proclaimed "Count of Correctness Affairs™".  But seriously, this is not even in my dictionary.  I would never recognize "cue" to mean the letter Q, I would think it meant a pool cue, or that it was a misspelling of queue.  And "cu" ?  I have nothing more to say about this, I think this needs a citation.ni ez naiz aldatuko 01:52, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have found the meaning of "cue" as the letter q in several dictionaries, so I presume it is correct. Of course, the spelling of the letter using the word for the letter is so rare that people don't always recognize it. I am doubtful of the spelling "cu" however; I could not find this in any dictionary I have (and it's not even in the Scrabble word list!) SCHZMO ✍ 02:10, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

text: The OED goes into detail about the various spellings: "cu", "q", "qu", "que", "kue", "kewe", and "cue". All except "cue" are long obsolete, and I'll change the article to reflect that. --Milkbreath (talk) 12:05, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Sluggoster, "cue" pronounced phonetically would be "kweh". Still, I'll accept that's how Q is spelt. Mnealon (talk) 13:36, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Spelling" of Q 

message: I find it very disturbing that many English speakers believe the 'regular' pronunciation of the letter q is [kw]. Could anyone enlighten me as to how anyone can make stupid assumptions like that.
Also, I find the fact that, the word queue [kju:] is spelt so, very odd. How could it have ever come about? I know that the vowel shifts (particularly the GVS) wrecked the English language but I didn't realise that they did that much damage.
:The reason that it is considered the "regular" pronounciation is because that is how it is pronounced in English - in the same way that a speaker of Maltese would consider the "regular" pronounciation of the letter "q" to be [ʔ] (a glottal stop). I don't think it's stupid, just naive. Mo-Al 01:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, [kw] is the regular pronunciation of the digraph qu, not of the letter q, even in English.  In no language that I have heard of is q by itself pronounced [kw].  --platypeanArchcow 01:49, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this. Q on its own is [k] 76.157.162.44 (talk) 02:04, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

text: and the French spelling is parsed like so: qu-eu-e = /k/-/ø/-(silent).  In English, the /ø/ became assimilated as /ju/.  --platypeanArchcow 01:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

text: You won't find Q not followed by U in Spanish. --LjL (talk) 20:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Not prononuced /kw/ though. Sluggoster (talk) 21:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerning the pronunciation of q and the spelling of the word queue

message: Could someone tell me the name of the slash of the upper case "Q" ?
65.190.135.130 01:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not with ultimate authority, but in view of my recent 'qoph' point below , 'tail' springs inevitably to mind, does it not? As do 'ray,' 'light,' 'heat,' 'energy,' 'love,' 'praise/prayer/worship,' and 'neck' in the circumstances(?). Does anyone else concern themselves with such details? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.100.250.216 (talk) 15:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Henry. --194.98.58.121 (talk) 12:56, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Slash of the Q 

message: Where does the "qu" come from in names like "Farquhar" and "Colquhoun"? --platypeanArchcow 01:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A Normanesque anglicisation of the original Gaelic, e.g., Farrcar. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.100.250.215 (talk) 23:51, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish surnames? 

message: I think that we should put in a picture of the letter Q in Sign Language, does anybdoy agree with me?--67.174.128.249
:That suggestion seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
:HAHA!!! ↑ That is funny as ya like!!!  HAHA!!!  Nice one.  SKC
::I think it's been done now. Keith Galveston (talk) 00:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sign Language 

message: Yes, Q is a rare letter, but I don't think you can say it is rare just because it needs to go with a u most of the time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.75.180.31 (talk) 17:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why it is rare 

message: Not everyone can read pronouncion accents. It's no trouble at all, I just am curious about what's wrong with my previous edit. 82.148.70.2 (talk) 12:26, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was wrong with my edit? 

message: Most useless letter ever. Alloverme (talk) 09:10, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You cannot nominate the letter Q for speedy deletion because it is one of the letters of the alphabet and it is very important. CPGirlAJ (talk) 19:52, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And you are hereby banished forever from the Q-Continuum" 173.209.109.16 (talk) 06:39, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  I nominate the letter Q for speedy deletion 

message: I don't know what to make of this: It was Q that created the world. His single mind is what binds everything in the world together (similar to the Jedi religeon, two branches of the same tree) Shan't we delete this?
But I like the idea that the Star Trek "Q" (where this might come from) is responsible for a "vandalism in history" : )
--Dtschenz (talk) 18:09, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Vandalism in History? 

message: In Chinese Hanyu Pinyin, 'q' is used to represent the sound [tɕʰ], which is close to English 'ch' in "cheese",
 but pronounced further toward the front of the mouth.
Isn't [tɕʰ] alveolo-palatal? The article on alveolo-palatal consonants describe them as palatalized palato-alveolars, and English 'ch' or [tʃʰ] is a palato-alveolar. Palatalizing it would make it go further back in the mouth, wouldn't it? 76.18.160.47 (talk) 20:00, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation of Pinyin Pronunciation 

message: What is the point of this statement: "It is the only letter not included in the name of any US state"? This is so very stupid and ridiculous, it makes me want to never read Wikipedia again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.246.235.187 (talk) 04:22, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it's no use, I'm deleting it. No encyclopedia I've seen would dump little trivia around like that. Hill Crest's WikiLaser! (BOOM!)  18:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Moreover, it's a "WP:OR" if not supplemented with a ref'. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 06:40, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless fact 

message: To do: 
*Salishan languages, Greenlandic? languages, Arabic.
*distinguish phonemic values from phonetic values
77.179.17.231 (talk) 01:21, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phonemic and phonetic values 

message: There being nothing I can find about the use of Q as /ʒ] in some "International Latin Alphabet" (apart from Tobias Conradi's invention, see ), I am deleting that from the table. -- Evertype·✆ 20:51, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  ʒ 

message: In the English town of Penrith in Cumbria there are a few old possibly 19th century street signs where the slash or tail on the letter Q on the left rather than the more conventional right was this a common practice of the time if it was then maybe it should be added to the article but I suspect it may be a mistake by the possibly not very well educated sign makers. Penrithguy (talk) 13:38, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Q slash on the left 

message: I believe there to be an error in the table, based on Fijian language#Orthography. However, since this page─ like most letters of the alphabet─ is protected, I cannot edit it. currently it says that  in Fijian is used for the phoneme "", that is  with a nasal release (and linking to the ) but based on the corresponding section of the table in the "Οrthοgraphy" seϲtiοn of the article οn Fijian, and what seems to make more sense here, I believe it is actually used to represent the prenasalised stop . Even though this is a relatively minor change, only correcting an easy-to-make transcription error so it links to the appropriate article, I am not allowed to make it because I currently cannot edit this article.
Could somebody please change this for me? Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
A fellow Wikipedian (2600:6C44:237F:ACCB:10D1:BD3:D4DB:B978 (talk) 23:10, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fijian "Q" 

message: The article needs a cursive "Q" - not the Americanized "q", but the calligraphic "Q". Quick hint: I am referring to the variant of capital "Q" that looks like a digit "2". 81.89.66.133 (talk) 06:42, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a cursive "Q" 

message: "⟨q⟩ has a wide variety of other pronunciations in some European languages and in non-European languages that have adopted the Latin alphabet."
Which pronounciations are you talking about? As far as I know, I'm an English speaker and I know a little Spanish and Q sounds the same in both languages. Q sounds the same in Spanish, French, then Italian, etc. Then there are languages that don't use the same script as English does? Without evidence, I don't know weather that claim is correct or not. 76.157.162.44 (talk) 02:12, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification