ABC Wednesday: "Q" is for Queue

ABC Wednesday for the letter Q. Poor letter Q. No love. :)

Since I lacked a photo of any of the various brass or woodwind quartets or quintets I have ever played in, I had to come up with something else. So I borrow a word from our friends across the pond and choose "queue", which isn't exactly common in the US. We just call them lines, mostly.

Queue comes from a French word of the same spelling, but that word was based on the Latin word Cauda, meaning a tail, as on an animal.

So for illustrations are photos from various queueing areas around Disney World, where there are rarely a shortage of lines to wait in.

Some various translations of the word queue:

Czech: fronta cs(cs) f.
Danish: kø
Dutch: rij nl(nl)
Finnish: jono fi(fi)
German: Wartezimmer, Warteschlange
Hebrew: תוֹר (tor) m.
Hungarian: sor hu(hu)
Italian: fila it(it) f.
Portuguese: fila pt(pt) f.
Russian: очередь ru(ru) (óčer'ed') f.
Spanish: fila es(es), cola es(es), linea es(es) f.
Swedish: kö sv(sv)

But then sometimes you just get lucky and wind up first in line, so there is no queue for youeue. :)

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