The Classical Latin alphabet had fewer letters than we do today (for example U and V used to be one and the same), and Q was used as an alternative to C and K in certain situations. Latin orthography dictated that a Q should be followed by a U, and the habit stuck, making QU a common digraph.
In English, the letter Q is usually followed by the letter U, but there are some exceptions. The majority of these are anglicised from Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Inuktitut, or other languages that do not use the English alphabet, with Q representing a sound not found in English.
Iqaluit, the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, also has a q which is not directly followed by a u. Qaqortoq and Qeqertarsuaq, both in Greenland, are notable for having three naked qs.
The words without vowels are why, hmm, hymn, xlnt, wynd, myths, thy, dry, cyst, etc.
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You may be surprised at the slang found on the tournament SCRABBLE board: BRO, HOMEY, and YO are all accepted words. ZA is the most played word containing the letter Z (and the only playable two-letter word with the letter Z) in tournament SCRABBLE play.
Q: Why is the letter “w” called “double u”? It looks like a “double v” to me. A: The name of the 23rd letter of the English alphabet is “double u” because it was originally written that way in Anglo-Saxon times. As the Oxford English Dictionary explains it, the ancient Roman alphabet did not have a letter “w.”
No. To make it clear right now, IQ is not a valid word in Scrabble. This is according to the official Scrabble dictionary, even though IQ is a legitimate word in the dictionary. That's because, generally speaking, you cannot use abbreviations in Scrabble.
As you can probably guess, the letter Z is the least commonly used letter in the English alphabet. (In American English, this letter is pronounced “zee.”) The letter Q is the second least commonly used letter. In English words, Q is almost always followed by the letter U.
If a letter lies horizontally on its face or back, it is called lazy. Letters with a curving flare at the top and rounded angles are called running.
In dictionaries, j, q, and z are found the least, but some of the words are rarely used. And if you value the opinion of cryptologists (people who study secret codes and communication), x, q, and z make the fewest appearances in the writing scene.
Military. Zone of the Interior.
The people have spoken, and the final words are in: After a month of crowdsourced searching, the new addition to the official Scrabble dictionary will be either “zen” or … “geocache.” Zen, noun: a Japanese form of Buddhism that emphasizes meditation.
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It's only in American English that it's pronounced as zee, with Candian English sometimes being the exception, depending on which option the speaker prefers. Zee became the standard way to pronounce Z in the United States in the 19th century.
W, or w, is the twenty-third and fourth-to-last letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. It represents a consonant, but in some languages it represents a vowel. Its name in English is double-u, plural double-ues.
The answer lies in the advent of the printing press in the 15th century. Originally, it was a single double-u block or even two “v's” if they didn't have the less commonly used “w” block. Then, as the technology continued to progress and became more streamlined, it was replaced with a double-v block.
Noun. (UK, slang) A marijuana cigarette. (UK, slang) PCP; phencyclidine.
Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words, like matcha, 'vax' and 'guac'
Zag is an informal verb that means to move in one of the directions in a zigzag pattern. A zigzag is a line of alternating, sharp up-and-down turns that form peaks and valleys kind of resembling the letter Z.
ez is a valid English word.
No, phd is not in the scrabble dictionary.
Zi (title) (子), a Chinese honorific used for ancient viscounts and for master philosophers.