Wednesday 6 June 2007

It's Wednesday, so it's spelling test day at school for my 8 year old daughter. This week the words are:

quit
quarter
quite
quarrel
quiet
quaint
quickly
quack
quest
quality
question
quantity

The new half term starts with a Q. The 17th letter of the Latin alphabet that wonderfully guarantees how u spell the next letter. I, therefore, offer an alternative Q spelling list:

qadi
qanat
qasida
qawwal
qawwali
qi
qiana
qibla
qigong
qin
qintar
qiviut
qwerty

Many thanks to Arabic, Chinese and Albanian cultures and, of course, 19th century American ingenuity which solved mechanical engineering deficiencies subsequently leading to global typing inefficiency.