okay so why the fuck does Q exist

the letter

what purpose does it serve? you can only use it with U anyway, not that it makes a unique sound

@izaya so that you can type sendq with less effort when implementimg an IRC server

@wolf480pl @izaya
"Seriously though, it's because our alphabet comes (eventually) from the Phoenicians. They had a sound which is similar to k, but a little farther back in your mouth. They used "K" for the normal k sound and "Q" for the farther-back k sound."

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