From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: 'WSFA members' <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Q? Hardly Useless.
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:34:31 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

    Quite so, and quickly analyzed, too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy Green [mailto:dalek_cag at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:15 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q? Hardly Useless.

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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