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For words to appear here, they must appear in their own entry in a dictionary; words that occur only as part of a longer phrase are not included. Proper nouns are not included in the list. There are, in addition, many place names and personal names, mostly originating from Arabic-speaking countries, Albania, or China, that have a Q without a U.
Weak forms of function words may be realized without vowel sounds, as in I can go [aɪ kŋ̍ ˈɡoʊ] and I must sell [aɪ ms̩ ˈsɛl]. [15] Some of these forms are reflected in orthography as contractions, such as ' s, ' ll, ' d, and n't.
Certain words, like piñata, jalapeño and quinceañera, are usually kept intact. In many instances the ñ is replaced with the plain letter n. In words of German origin (e.g. doppelgänger), the letters with umlauts ä, ö, ü may be written ae, oe, ue. [14] This could be seen in many newspapers during World War II, which printed Fuehrer for ...
This was raised on AfD (VfD as it then was). The consensus was to keep it here, since it contains more than a list of definitions, and is about the words themselves more than the things they represent. Printed dictionaries do not contain lists of word curios, so Wiktionary should not either. Soo 16:10, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
relatively abundant n, q (not necessarily followed by u), u; ubiquitous double consonants and vowels (aa, ii, qq, uu, more rarely ee, oo) vowels a, i, u conspicuously more frequent than e, o (which are only found before q and r)
Usually foreignisms or new coinages, words with -qu- where the -u- is a full vowel are more akin to most words in this list than to the "ordinary" English words containing -qu-. Another recurring point is that many of the words listed are realia of the respective cultures and thus not truly English words.
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In official texts, the abbreviation N.N. (for Latin nomen nescio, "name unknown") may be used. Out of official texts, N.N. is very occasionally (and non-seriously) expanded to Nebúkadnesar Nebúkadnesarson, a name used in the short story "Lilja: Sagan af Nebúkadnesar Nebúkadnesarsyni í lífi og dauða" by Halldór Laxness.