From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] Q? Hardly Useless. Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:39:43 -0400 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> 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