But Q-without-U words come all from all over the globe, from Mandarin to Inuit to Zulu. A couple of them are even "homegrown" English words with a modern twist.

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The big news is that there are two new words using the letter Q that do not require U. QIN (n): A Chinese zither, with strings stretched across a flat box. Scrabble score: 12 and FIQH (n): An ...

Leaving aside for now the few foreign loanwords (e.g., Qatar, Iraq) where Q shows up without a U, an English Q is the only letter that can't go anywhere without a partner. Why does a Q always need ...

Q would be quite lonely without its buddy U. To understand why, we need to travel back to the time of our alphabetic ancestors, the ancient Greeks.