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Why always after "q" "u" should be used |
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Answer» Harsh ....???????? yeh kya ho gaya, sorry Guys link copy karne par toh poori story hee mil gayi......hum simply yeh kehna chahte the kee, Janaab neh answer koh www.dictionary.com se copy kiya tha......Yeh toh wahi ho gaya maangee pudhi thi mil puri gayi ab koi puri ko thodhi na sabjee ke saath khayega...... He\'d copied it from "https://www.dictionary.com "\xa0Right !!!!! Mr. Nikhil Chavan...... From where u have copied Nikhil????????☹☹?? Scrabble players are acutely aware that Qis a tricky letter. To use a Q in the game, a player must also find an available U. The fact that Q is the second most rarely used letter in the alphabet certainly doesn’t make using Q any easier.Let’s quest toward resolving the questions of quarrelsome Q, the 17th letter in the alphabet.How do Q and U work together?In English QU is always used as a digraph(a pair of letters representing a single speech sound) for the sound /kw/ (a voiceless labiovelarstop). Q’s pairing with U is a Latin invention that has its origin in Greek. The letter Koppa, which Q is based on, would appear before a rounded vowel where otherwise a sound like /k/ or /g/ would be used. But, a few other letters, like C, also designated the same sound but in different letter combinations. As C gradually came to represent more and more of these instances, Q became primarily dependent on U to express any sound at all. This is quite a quibble for a full-fledged member of the Latin (now English) alphabet.(On a related note, why is W called “double-U” when it is in fact represented visually by two V’s?)Q without U is used to represent sounds not often found in English but typical in Semiticlanguages. Loan words such as Quran and Iraq are examples of Q’s guttural /k/ sound. |
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