This is no time for ‘Q’ and ‘U’ to be developing cold feet in Norman
This is no time for ‘Q’ and ‘U’ to be developing cold feet

This sounds like an awesome way to get the kids to learn about a quirky part of the English language. But for some reason, you guys branch off into "except for the word SHEQELIM" conversations? Do you really not have anything better to do than look up exceptions to the rule?

Really, Dewayne? Is bitter sarcasm necessary in the comments to a human and community interest story about school kids? Pull the stick out of your bum and quit being so glum about everything. If you want to argue about gay marriage, find the comment section for some story about the recent Maine election. Sheesh.

Thanks Doug, I'm can't get my computer to respond and when I hit the Alt key my computer locks up and I have to shut it off. I got it used from my wife's daughter who says it should not do that and probably needs some work on it. She may be able to fix it and show me if she ever gets the time.

You forgot QUATLOOS! :) The characters are part of the extended set in most browsers. Getting them is a matter of either having the program (or character set with virtual keyboard) or cut-and-paste from a website translator. :Þ Except for that which is (hold the ALT key down, type 022, then release the ALT key.)

Hopefully they had same sex couples partnered up, or the gay and lesbian clubs should be notified. Who cares about teaching our children language, reading, math or history!!!! We better get our politically correct agenda in here. Could someone, please, tell me if same sex couples were represented? If not I will be making a phone call on Monday!

Mike, Would you mind telling me how to get my computer to make all those symbols? It is a Dell with Windows Vista.
Is it even available on standard computers?
I think that is amazing.

Better work than Steven....

In English, the letter q is usually followed by the letter u, but there are some exceptions. The majority of these are naturalised from Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Inuktitut, or other languages which do not use the English alphabet, with q representing a sound not found in English. For example, in the Chinese pinyin alphabet, qi is pronounced /tʃi/, as pinyin uses ‹q› to represent the sound [tɕʰ], which is approximated as [tʃ] in English. In other examples, q represents [q] (in standard Arabic, such as in qat, faqir and Qur'ān, and alternative spellings are sometimes accepted which use k in place of q. In Arabic, the romanised Q (ق) has a meaningful difference to K (ك), e.g. قلب /qɑlb/ means "heart" but كلب /kalb/ means "dog", so it is important to differentiate between the two, although, the sound Q is missing in English and many other languages, so there are versions where Q has been replaced with K or C, e.g. al-Qāhira - Cairo, Qur'ān - Koran, but Iraq, Qatar retained the original romanization.

thats funny Steven. Better work than the DOK...