Qu Sentence Examples

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  • The Celts represented Indo-European q by p, whilst the Greeks, Illyrians, Thracians, Ligurians, and aborigines of France, Britain and Ireland represented it by k, c or qu.

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  • The velar tenuis q, when labialized, became qu, without labialization became k; the velar media g became b or g.

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  • Bonne Fête! – This variation is common for Canadian French speakers, especially in Québec.

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  • Many languages find the combination qu, when both sounds are consonantal (qw), difficult; q being the deepest guttural while u (English w) is a lip sound, the points of production are nearly as far separate as they can be.

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  • In the Goidelic group qu appears as c, thus Irish cethir, " four "; in the Brythonic group it is changed into p, as in Welsh pedwar, " four."

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  • In Brythonic, primitive Celtic qu became p, as above noted.

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  • On the other hand e was wholly free from that quality which he ascribed to Lord eorge Sackville, a man "apt to take a sort of undecided, equ vocal, narrow ground, that evades the substantial merits of the qu stion, and puts the whole upon some temporary, local, accide tal or personal consideration."

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  • Much of this material is demonstrably derived from the second document; and it is qu i te possible that the whole of it may come from that source.

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