From: bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid   
      
   Ross Clark wrote:   
      
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   > "Q is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet,if we would but   
   > use the serviceable k as he should be, and restore him to the reputation   
   > he had with our forefathers.   
   > For the English Saxons knew not this halting q,with her waiting-woman u   
   > after her ... [t]ill custom, under the excuse of expressing enfranchised   
   > words with us, entreated her into our language."   
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   I do wonder what might have gone through his head that lead to him to   
   proscribe to those letter the female gender.   
      
      
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