Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:15:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q? Hardly Useless.
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

And it's worth a lot of points in scrabble, esp. if
you can place it one one of the doubling or tripling
squares.

--cathy

--- Ernest Lilley <elilley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Letters like Q are hardly useless, though their most
> significant utility
> isn't as part of the spoken, but written language,
> clueing us into a
> word's etiology and the depth of meaning for which
> it is only the
> visible portion.
>
> Dumbing down the alphabet might be useful for bears
> of little brain
> (like me) but what is lost is significant.
>
> Ern
>

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