# Is it really that difficult!!!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-that-difficult/66182
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 22, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-that-difficult/66182 "2001-05-22T13:28:36Z")
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### Author: ![Jukeball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jukeball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jukeball)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-that-difficult/66182/1 "2001-05-22T13:28:36Z")

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Why does someone not publish a word (which makes sense) starting with ‘Q’ and not followed by ‘u’. Who started this trend???

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### Author: ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2001, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-really-that-difficult/66182/2 "2001-05-22T13:42:40Z")

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I searched under “Q followed by U” and came up with this:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=46487](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=46487)

Also, there are a few words (important in Scrabble 🙂 ) that contain a q with no u following, not to mention the country Qatar.