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  1. OMG I KNEW IT!
  2. Today's letter of the day is Q

    Q is the 17th letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is cue, occasionally spelled cu.

    The Semitic sound value of Qôp (perhaps originally qaw cord) was /q/ (voiceless uvular plosive). In Greek this sign as Qoppa Ϙ probably came to represent several labialized velar plosives, among them /kʷ/ and /kʷʰ/. These sounds changed to /p/ and /pʰ/ respectively. Therefore, Qoppa was transformed into two letters: Qoppa, which stood for a number only, and Phi Φ which stood for the aspirated sound /pʰ/ that came to be pronounced /f/ in Modern Greek. The Etruscans used Q only in conjunction with V, symbolizing thus a /kʷ/. Some scholars claim that Q and Phi are unrelated.

    In Unicode the capital Q is codepoint U+0051 and the lowercase q is U+0071.
    The ASCII code for capital Q is 81 and for lowercase q is 113; or in binary 01010001 and 01110001, correspondingly.
    The EBCDIC code for capital Q is 216 and for lowercase q is 152.
    The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "Q" and "q" for upper and lower case respectively.


    Fun Facts:
    Q is the only letter that does not appear in any US state name
    The James Bond character Q (see Q (James Bond)) appears in every film except Live and Let Die (although it has also been announced that he will not appear in the 2006 Bond film, Casino Royale.)
    People connected to an IRC-network with usermode +q are immune to bans, kicks and akicks.
  3. And it was good, as expected.
  4. I love you all, so much.
  5. OMG YOU MOTHERsmurfER
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