Results & More Voting

I'm way behind in announcing results (not that you don't just look at the polls yourselves...).

Natalie needs Nutella nightly, Niko needs Nutella now. (Naomi)
Overtired Oliver ordered oodles of old, orange oddities. (Sherry)
Perforated parasols partially protect photophobic penguins. (Bob)
Quirky queens quickly quilted quaint quadrangles. (Rita)

And now, vote for R (while you continue to think about your S sentences).

Vote for Q

We ended up with a great Q selection!

Vote for the sentence to represent Q in alphAmuse. Poll closes Monday July 18 at midnight.

Q sentence

Remember to post a Q sentence by the end of today!

To submit your sentence, use the comments on this post: http://alpha-musing.blogspot.com/2011/07/quilting-q.html

Quilting Q

Submit Q sentences by Wednesday, July 13, using comments on this post.

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)