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Why Is Q Always Followed By U?

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HELP SUPPORT NAME EXPLAIN ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/nameexplain INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nameexplainyt/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/248812236869988 TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NameExplainYT BOOK: http://bit.ly/originofnames MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/name-explain Thank you to all my Patrons for supporting the channel! SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Digraphs: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/digraph The QU Digraph: http://ingles-americano.blogspot.com/2012/07/digraph-qu.html List of English words containing Q not followed by U: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U Why Does The Letter Q Almost Always Need The Letter U?: https://www.dictionary.com/e/q/ History of Q: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Q-letter Why Does Q (Almost) Always Go With a U?: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54772/why-does-q-almost-always-go-u Koppa: https://memim.com/koppa-letter.html Qoph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qoph Early Greek Alphabet: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/greekpast/4739.html The Phoenicians: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phoe/hd_phoe.htm Rounding: https://www.britannica.com/topic/rounding

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