In
<caarmm9qdhnpyad88a2mdyztdyzmvhf_iloxkk3d5y8sjkxt...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 07/03/2012
at 12:02 AM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> 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>
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