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 > __________________________________ Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th