Re: Dutch "ij"

Nik Taylor writes:
 > Muke Tever wrote:
 > > I don't know about Spanish crossword puzzles, but our Spanish *Scrabble* game
 > > had a single-letter tile for <Qu>...
 >
 > Hmm ... does it have a single tile for "ch", "ll", maybe "rr"?
 >
 > {Qu} would be useful to have as one in English, since, with almost no
 > exceptions (and I think they're all proper names like Iraq or Qatar
 > anyways, which are illegal in Scrabble), Q is always followed by u.
 >

Qabalah, qanat, qawwali, qi, qibla, qigong and qintar are in the New
Oxford.  Everything else I can see is a proper noun or an abbreviation
(is Qabalah proper?  It's capitalized). Oh, and qwerty is at the back
of q.  I'd count that as an abbreviation, although I guess it's a grey
area.

Of course, these are only the words with _initial_ q[^u].  Doubtless
there are some others with it in other positions.

Incidentally, well done to anyone who knows what all of these mean
without having to look them up.  Qabalah and qi are variant spellings
of Kabbalah and chi respectively (but you knew that).

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