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Origins: cord of wool (1)
Greek: qoppa
Frequency: 25th most frequent letter in English (2)
"P" from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755): "Is a consonant borrowed from the Latin or French, for which, though q is commonly placed in the Saxon alphabet, the Saxons generally used cƿ, cw; as cƿellan or cwellan, to quell: qu is, in English, pronounced as by the Italians and Spaniards cw; as quail, quench, except quoit, which is spoken, according to the manner of the French, coit: the name of this letter is cue, from queue, French, tail; its form being that of an O with a tail." (3)
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Queenie quickly quieted quirky quails.
Quadratic quotients quicken Quentin's quivering.
Quails quack, quartets quiver, quarks quantify, queens quarrel.
Quincey querulously quarrels quotidian quandaries
Quick-stepping Queen's quietly quash quibbles.
Querky queens quickly quilted quaint quandrangles.
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