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QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.
A comparison of the glyphs of q and g The lowercase "q" is usually seen as a lowercase "o" or "c" with a descender (i.e., downward vertical tail) extending from the right side of the bowl, with or without a swash (i.e., flourish), or even a reversed lowercase p. The "q"'s descender is usually typed without a swash due to the major style ...
1. A narrow stretch of land with water on each side, e.g. an isthmus or promontory. [4] 2. A narrow stretch of woodland or of ice. [4] 3. A high level pass, especially the narrowest part. [4] nehrung A long sandspit separating a haff or lagoon from the sea, especially one along the south coast of the Baltic Sea. [4] neighborhood
Tongue positions of cardinal front vowels, with highest point indicated. The position of the highest point is used to determine vowel height and backness. X-ray photos show the sounds [i, u, a, ɑ]. The IPA defines a vowel as a sound which occurs at a syllable center. [68] Below is a chart depicting the vowels of the IPA.
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G is the tenth least frequently used letter in the English language (after Y, P, B, V, K, J, X, Q, and Z), with a frequency of about 2.02% in words. Other languages Most Romance languages and some Nordic languages also have two main pronunciations for g , hard and soft.
quod erat faciendum (Q.E.F.) which was to be done: Or "which was to be constructed". Used in translations of Euclid's Elements when there was nothing to prove, but there was something being constructed, for example a triangle with the same size as a given line. quod est (q.e.) which is: quod est necessarium est licitum: what is necessary is lawful
[optional in place of period] when the language of the gloss lacks a one-word translation, a phrase may be joined by underscores, e.g., Turkish çık-mak (come_out-INF) "to come out" With some authors, the reverse is also true, for a two-word phrase glossed with a single word. [2] [21] › >, →, :