2007-09-05 02:38:57 · 5 answers · asked by Pretty 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Well, not always, but ....
In most modern western languages written in Latin script, such as in Romance and Germanic languages, Q appears almost exclusively in the digraph QU, though see Q without U. In English this digraph most often denotes the cluster /kw/, except in borrowings from French where it represents /k/ as in plaque. In Italian qu represents [kw] (where [w] is an allophone of /u/); in German, /kv/; and in French, Portuguese, Occitan, Spanish, and Catalan, /k/ or /kw/. (In Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan and French, qu replaces c for /k/ before front vowels i and e, since in those contexts c is a fricative and letter 'k' is seldom used outside loan words.)
Q is rarely seen in a word without a U next to it in English, thus making it the second most rarely used letter in the English language.
In English, the letter q is usually followed by the letter u. While this is true in the vast majority of cases, there are some exceptions, the majority of which are naturalised from Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Inuktitut, or other languages which do not use the English alphabet, with q representing a sound not found in English.
see link or would that be linq
2007-09-05 06:19:25 · answer #1 · answered by The Corinthian 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Q Followed By U
2016-12-11 12:02:22 · answer #2 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quiet Queen
2016-04-03 04:38:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not always. Qat is an evergreen shrub.
2007-09-05 05:20:58 · answer #4 · answered by big_mustache 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, that's only true for the majority of words. i will leave you a link that will back-up my answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U
2007-09-05 03:44:09 · answer #5 · answered by born&raised: maui_gurl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋