In <caarmm9qdhnpyad88a2mdyztdyzmvhf_iloxkk3d5y8sjkxt...@mail.gmail.com>, on 07/03/2012 at 12:02 AM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> said:
>Since native* English words do not contain q without an >immediately following u, one might reasonably suggest that QANTAS >indeed be pronounced Kantas, by analogy with recently borrowed >words like qat, which no one but the naif turn into quat, and >which often have alternative spelling in k. Some of the common schemes for transliterating Atabic and Hebrew use a Q for a consonant that is pronounced K, e.g., Qatar, Qoheleth. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN