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Old Feb 10, 2017 | 1:23 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
Yes, you find most of them come form Arabiac background. Since Arabic has its own letters the missing "U" is some trans-scription issue.
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