Why Q Needs U Quotes

“Both OU and OW had good reasons to become the standard spelling for this post-shift vowel, but English failed to make a firm decision in favour of one or the other. It has even exploited the optionality to distinguish different words with a common origin. We spell flower with OW, while we use OU for the best quality or the ‘flower’ of ground grain – that is, flour.”
― Danny Bate, Why Q Needs U

“is basically the last great letter before the alphabet goes completely off the rails ~ @prawn_meat, 2025”
― Danny Bate, Why Q Needs U

“If another nation with a different language had been top dog, or if the alphabet had arrived after the Etruscan decline, our C might still have the sound /g/, and our alphabet would seem closer to its Creek crandfather.”
― Danny Bate, Why Q Needs U