Let’s slide into the week with a short lesson for today.
From grammarbook.com, it’s the Q portion of the “Spelling, Vocabulary, and Confusing Words” list:
| quarts | units of liquid measure (four quarts to a gallon) | |
| quartz | a mineral | |
| cay | a small, low island (also spelled key) | |
| key | a small, low island; instrument for opening locks | |
| quay | (pronounced key) wharf, dock, pier [KC – After all of the Scrabble games I’ve played this word in, I had no idea this was pronounced “key”!] | |
| cue | a hint; a stimulus | |
| queue | a line of people waiting | |
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