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Old Feb 9, 2017, 9:35 am
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Originally Posted by Dave Noble
QANTAS used to be an initialism and has remained as the name as the airline

There are plenty of words in English that start with "Q" and are not followed by "U" such as qat, qats, qawwal , qawwali, qi , quiblah etc
You must always win at Scrabble

Originally Posted by perthite
I wonder of Qatar have the same problem.
I used to think Etihad was "Ethihad".
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