2020-12-13
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด Q – queue
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ออกเสียง queue = ‘KYOO’
US & Canadian = line
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HISTORICAL USAGE OF QUEUE
The English noun queue comes from
Middle French queu, quewe, queuue, cueue
(with many other variant spellings)
and Old French cue, coe “tail,” from Latin cauda (also cōda )
“tail (of an animal or scorpion),” also “penis.”
The first recorded meaning of queue in English,
from Old French, dates from the late 15th century and meant
“a band of parchment attached to a document and bearing a seal.”
The historical sense
“a braid of hair worn hanging down from the head or a wig,”
dates from the 18th century.
The very modern computing sense of queue
“a sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like,
waiting for action” dates from the 1960s.
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
Queue =
waiting line of people or cars:
There was a long queue at the movies.
Not to be confused with:
cue = hint; prompting:
The actor was given his cue.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary
queue
- Has the forms queued and queuing or queueing;
queueing has five vowels in a row.
See also related terms for row.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Is it que, queue, or q?
One of our persistent—and more puzzling—lookups
is for the word que,
which is entered in our dictionary (capitalized)
as an abbreviation for Quebec.
Qué is also a Spanish word that means “what.”
That is not, however, the word that many people are looking for
when they look up que in our dictionary.
Que is homophonous with a number of other words,
most of which have wildly different spellings and meanings.
One of the words that people are looking for when they look up que is queue, a word that means “line”
(as in, “We waited in the ticket queue.”)
Sometimes people are looking for the homonym cue,
or “a signal to start or do something”
(“The lights just went out—that’s my cue to start the movie.”).
Very occasionally, people look up que for coup,
a word that refers to a violent and sudden overthrow
or takeover of a government (“reports on the latest coup attempt”).
And if you’re looking for the phonetic spelling of the letter q,
try again: that’s cue.
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
queue
If you’re standing in a queue
you’ll have plenty of time to ponder
the unusual spelling of this word. Remember,
it contains two “U” s."
