![]() ![]() The pronunciation of “quinoa” is discussed in the post linked as “Related Post”: On the other hand, the word “quartile” is widely used, especially in anything having to do with statistics. Many of these spectra have passed into chemistry with tools for chemical analysis. Why?Įlectrical engineers deal with “voltage spectra” and “power spectra”, and physicists also deal with “energy spectra”, “color spectra”, “electron spectra”, “neutron spectra”, “mass spectra”, etc. I made a correction of this to “spectra” – but then cross words ensued. I heard an electrical engineer use “spectrums”. Those people just cannot deal with Latin plurals. I wonder why English speakers cannot deal with this.Īlso, the plural of “index” is “indices”, but I see “indexes” most of the time now. Likewise, the plural of “spectrum” is “spectra”, the plural of “automatum” is “automata”, “labium” is “labia”, the plural or “minimum” is “minima”, the plural of “maximum” is “maxima”, the plural of “optimum” is “optima”, and the plural of “ultamatum” is “ultamata”. The plural of the word “quantum” is “quanta” because this is a loan word from Latin, and “quanta” is the plural in Latin. There are the top quartile, the bottom quartile, and two quartiles in between those. Quai (this is the word for the quays in Paris) Quahog (also spelled quohog some speakers pronounce the qu as ) Quixote (Standard American pronunciation of Quixote: Standard British pronunciation: ) In a few words, qu is pronounced I’ll note them. ![]() Note: In English orthography, q is usually followed by the letter u. I’ll categorize them according to “Basic Vocabulary,” “General Vocabulary,” and “Advanced Vocabulary.” Although Scrabble resources list hundreds of “English words” beginning with the letter q, there are only about 80 (not counting inflections) that most people are likely to encounter in their reading. ![]()
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