Re: [問卦] 有沒有字母 q 後面常加ui或ua的八卦

作者: cornflower (矢車)   2015-01-28 22:24:20
※ 引述《perry429 (千千萬萬個信襄)》之銘言:
: 如題
: 很多 q 開頭的英文單字,後面常加 ui 或 ua
: 例如:
: ubiquitin 泛素
: squalene 鯊烯
: 還有quit quarter等等
: 有沒有這方面的八卦?
: 我絕對不會承認是因為生化念太煩才上來發廢文的......
既然原po誠心誠意的發文了……
剛好最近在看Samuel Johnson的A Grammar of of the English Tongue,
裡面講Q的有一小段:
"Q, as in other language, is always followed by u, and has a sound which
our Saxon ancestors well expressed by cw, as quadrant, queen, equestrian,
quilt, inquiry, quire, quotidian. Qu is never followed by u.
Qu is sometimes sounded, in words derived from the French, like k, as
conquer, liquor, risque, chequer."
簡單翻譯,q後面一定跟著u,發音就像/kw/,qu後面接母音,
不只原po你提的i或a,o或e也可以(quote、queen),但是絕對不再跟著u。
qu也可以發成/k/,如果那個字是從法文來的話,例如conquer。

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