Ignorance of the Q

Hammer89

I'm standing in a very long queue in my local fuelling station yesterday when I hear something very queer, something I'd never heard before.

The man behind me, a very Dublin man, utters to his mate. "Betcha they'll be out of f*ckin' brickets by the time we reach the top". The South Dublin side of me wanted to pull him aside and say, 'I think you'll find they're called briquettes. There's a Q in there you know' but I didn't want a fight, not when I was already pencilled in for a scrap with Mother Nature in the form of walking home unscathed, which I did thank god.

Personally, I'm a briquette man - always have been, always will be - but how many of the other kind are out there and which is it, bricket or briquette? Interestingly, how many people in the former bracket (or is it braquette?) would disregard the Q in a word like, say, croquette? Would that suddenly be crockets? Of course not.

Respect the Q for **** sake.

Franz Von Peppercorn

This is the most important thing.

kneemos

Mmmmmm. https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/briquette

biko

Qs are for peasants.

Birneybau

Hammer89 wrote: »

I'm standing in a very long queue in my local fuelling station yesterday when I hear something very queer, something I'd never heard before.

The man behind me, a very Dublin man, utters to his mate. "Betcha they'll be out of f*ckin' brickets by the time we reach the top". The South Dublin side of me wanted to pull him aside and say, 'I think you'll find they're called briquettes. There's a Q in there you know' but I didn't want a fight, not when I was already pencilled in for a scrap with Mother Nature in the form of walking home unscathed, which I did thank god.

Personally, I'm a briquette man - always have been, always will be - but how many of the other kind are out there and which is it, bricket or briquette? Interestingly, how many people in the former bracket (or is it braquette?) would disregard the Q in a word like, say, croquette? Would that suddenly be crockets? Of course not.

Respect the Q for **** sake.

Queue

Bruthal

Correct pronunciation is quay here.

Hammer89

Birneybau wrote: »

Queue

Given we were in a queue I thought it was best to use the letter and avoid confusion.

bazz26

Here was me thinking it was this Q:

pablo128

I've heard them called many things before,












...but a fuelling station?

Pherekydes

Cue a queue of outraged fools bothered about their Q's (and P's, presumably).

seenitall

I really like Ben Whishaw, hope he stays on after Craig's era is over.

kneemos

pablo128 wrote: »

I've heard them called many things before,












...but a fuelling station?

That's proper posh folk speak.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Ah god love the poor uneducated ignorant Dub.

Pherekydes

seenitall wrote: »

I really like Ben Whishaw, hope he stays on after Craig's era is over.

Badly miscast. As Bond said "...still got spots..."

Should've cast an actor in their 50s, at least.

glynf

briquettes or brickets, its still just fancy turf.

Hammer89

This thread has spawned an even greater question: is there an official way of spelling individual letters? I'm not sure there is you know.

Hammer89

kneemos wrote: »

That's proper posh folk speak.

The butler usually fills up my car so I generally don't frequent petrol shops or whatever they're called.

kneemos

Hammer89 wrote: »

This thread has spawned an even greater question: is there an official way of spelling individual letters? I'm not sure there is you know.

There's a pronunciation. T is tee or B is bee.

Hammer89

kneemos wrote: »

There's a pronunciation. T is tee or B is bee.

What's W?

kneemos

Hammer89 wrote: »

What's W?

Double you.

dxhound2005

a, i c.

Hammer89

kneemos wrote: »

Double you.

Naturally but who's going to write that when simply capitalising the letter gets the same point across a lot easier?

And who's to say that Q isn't spelt 'que' or 'cue'. Big questions are being asked today.

dxhound2005

Phonetics are your friend, kju.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/pk_ipa.htm

Odyssey 2005

kneemos wrote: »

That's proper posh folk speak.

Another spoke like that and you'd have a wheel.;)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

We just say a bale of turf.

Brian OBrien

Hammer89 wrote: »

There's a Q in there you know'

Hammer89 wrote: »

they're called briquettes

The ironing is delicious.