Re: Chicago Convention Freedom Rights Explained

Joseph R. Kiniry (kiniry@cs.caltech.edu)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:37:30 -0700 (PDT)


duck@hellskitchen.com writes:
> >[bonus points: how did Qantas become one of the only words in english
> >without a u after the q?]
>
> I don't think it is actually a word in the English language.
>
> qintar - an Albanian currency
> qiviut - the undercoat of a musk-ox
> qoph - a letter in the Hebrew alphabet
> qhare - a fancy way of spelling Rohit's name

how about qasida
qere
and qeri

who's got the oed online?

joe

> >[double bonus points: origin of 'cabotage' ?]
>
> from the French "caboter" - to sail along the coast.
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> ****** "Why can't some people take a joke?
> Well, maybe because they're honest,
> and the joke doesn't belong to them."
>
> - Matt Diamond