Q what is the point of a Q

[RATTER15]

Why does the letter Q have to be followed by a U what is the point ? or are there any words that have a Q and no U?

[andy-hughes]

Qatar - as in the airline has no 'q', but it is not an English word, so may not count, although you did not specify that the word has to be English in origin.

[bigmamma]

The Australian airline Qantas if that counts I guess :-) xx

[RATTER15]

I'm referring to the English language!

[bobtheturkey]

quin-tar which is an albanian currency

[bobtheturkey]

sorry qintar :)

[RATTER15]

Thats not English you Turkey!!

[bobtheturkey]

it is if you say it in a c.o.c.k.ney accent :)

[k9 fott]

Qello ratty

[Hellyon]

We could just use the letter KW so we would have Kween, Kwick, Kwango, Ekwator. That looks weird doesn't it - I guess that's why we have QU.
Does qwertyuiop count?

[Lonnie]

Hi Ratter,
I looked at a Scrabble site, if that qualifies.

http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/propriet ary/scrabble/features/qnou.html

[Hellyon]

Qwerty does count - it's in the Dictionary!!!

[k9 fott]

kwack

[bobtheturkey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_w ords_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U

[bobtheturkey]

my albanian word is in there so i want a full apology ratter :)

[RATTER15]

No apologies Bob, sorry, they are all still foreign words, it even says they are from other countries!! I think QWERTY is the nearest so far but even that is cheating as it is only made up from the order of letters on a keyboard!!

English words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigmamma]

Wow The Prophet , I had no idea though I must say I have wondered about that . I really suppose I should have known but at least I do now , thankyou. :-) x

[bobtheturkey]

it says list of english words :)

[bobtheturkey]

they are all considered to be naturalised in english :)

[RATTER15]

This is the first line off that page Bob: 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