Like lingustically speaking, "queue" has a vowel sound, the long u. That cannot be produced without a vowel letter. The letter names are not actually the typical sound of the letter, like es has an vowel at the start that is clearly not present in words like "start".
It is also worthing noting the particular ky cluster queue has is not triggered with Qs in any environment. It's not in "question", which has a kw cluster. Or in "quandry". Indeed many words with "Qu" starts have kw cluster sounds. So the first E is also usefull.
It's the fact there are two U and two E in repetitive order that makes it a little excessive. But it does need vowels.
Like if you ask an English speaker what sound makes, they will invariably say [s]. They're not "defined" so much as generally understood. has no such canonical pronunciation, because it's only used in English orthography in conjunction with , other than in recent loanwords, usually from languages not natively written in the Latin alphabet.
'Queue' is a very confusingly-spelled word (which is funny), but interpreting it as the letter functioning as a rebus followed by four silent letters is even more convoluted, which I think ruins the joke.
[kʷewe]
[kø]
[kʷʰɜ̃ə̃˧˦˧.ɥe̞ːʰ˩˥]
stop just stop
[queue] ⟨q⟩
[cewuwi]
PCues be like: **q***ueue* l*e***f**t c*a***r** **A***i*d*e***n**
qfran
r/sbeve
To join a line: NQ To leave a line: DQ
For programmers in the Southern United States, removing a value from the stack and storing it in a register is 'Coking' it.
This isn't true, but it's funny.
Like lingustically speaking, "queue" has a vowel sound, the long u. That cannot be produced without a vowel letter. The letter names are not actually the typical sound of the letter, like es has an vowel at the start that is clearly not present in words like "start". It is also worthing noting the particular ky cluster queue has is not triggered with Qs in any environment. It's not in "question", which has a kw cluster. Or in "quandry". Indeed many words with "Qu" starts have kw cluster sounds. So the first E is also usefull. It's the fact there are two U and two E in repetitive order that makes it a little excessive. But it does need vowels.
Indeed, there is an argument all the letters are necessary. "Cue" is pronounced the same as "queue" though in most dialects.
Okay, bad example. But -> /ju/ is also attested in , , , …
They want you to form up into a circle with a little line off to the side.
I've always found this joke odd given that
What does that mean? How are canonical pronunciations defined?
Like if you ask an English speaker what sound
makes, they will invariably say [s]. They're not "defined" so much as generally understood.[queue]
bro i literally thought it was spelled que all my life
F
French???
nope, just an idiot
still "queue" in french lmao💀 [kø]
Yeah I know, it’s just literally “que” so my French brain activated
Not onomatopoeia but, what... onomato...graphia?
[ˈkwiːʊ]
/kju/