Friday, September 10, 2010

Queue

I was thinking on my drive home last night about the word queue. I honestly don't know how I got to thinking of that word, but I did. I decided that I really like the word queue. I mean, is there another word in the English language that uses five letters, four of which are vowels, in order to express one letter (Q)? Maybe, but I can't think of one. Why make it so completely complicated? I have to be honest, I wasn't even 100% sure of the pronunciation of the word queue until I went to England.
(and here's where I become one of those annoying people who's travelled to a country and is now an expert [but I did actually live there for 3 months]. I'm not expert, but I do know this:)
The British queue up for everything. They don't say line. It was never, "Are you in line?" No, it was "Is this the queue?" They queue up, they are queueing up, they are in queue, they queued up. Lovely people.
Lovely word. [It's also kind of fun to type. queue queue queue. Okay, I'm done.]

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