q
Q is a 1 letter word which starts with the letter Q and ends with the letter Q for which we found 1 definitions.
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| - the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet has but one sound (that of k) and is always followed by u the two letters together being sounded like kw except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic quick; cwen queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin which derived it through a Greek alphabet from the Ph/nician the ultimate origin being Egyptian. |
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