But where did this queuing malarkey all begin? Well, according to social historians, it’s actually all a bit of a myth. However, there is evidence to suggest that it was born from the Brits wanting to create fairness and equality among their peers. Simply put, just wanting to show a bit of respect to each other.

But the truth is, “queueing” and “queuing” are simply alternative spellings of the gerund (-ing) form of the same word. That is not to say that there is no difference between them at all.

B2. to wait in a line of people, often to buy something: Dozens of people were queueing up to get tickets.

Is it que, queue, or q? One of the words that people are looking for when they look up que is queue, a word that means “line” (as in, “We waited in the ticket queue.”) Sometimes people are looking for the homonym cue, or “a signal to start or do something” (“The lights just went out—that’s my cue to start the movie.”).

Meaning of queue in English. a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something: Form an orderly queue.

The first recorded meaning of queue in English, from Old French, dates from the late 15th century and meant “a band of parchment attached to a document and bearing a seal.” The historical sense “a braid of hair worn hanging down from the head or a wig,” dates from the 18th century.

“Queue” is actually a borrowed-word from French, hence the weird pronounciation in relation to spelling since English and French phonetics are not the same. It just so happens that “queue” is pronounced the same way as the letter “Q”. However, a consonant needs a vowel to make a sound and therefore, a word.

There are only two silent letters in “queue”, actually: the U coming after Q, and the final E. You see, “queue” was originally a French word, and in Old French, it was pronounced something like /kewə/ (roughly kay-wuh) or /køə/ – meaning that the only silent letter was the U coming directly after the Q.

The relative pronoun que can mean who, that, whom, or which. As a relative pronoun, que can be used to join two sentences into one single (compound) sentence. The clause introduced by the relative pronoun que is the relative clause.

The Spanish k is pronounced basically the same as it usually is in English, except perhaps a bit softer, often something like the “c” in “scatter.” The q is pronounced the same. As in English, the Spanish q is always followed by a u except in a very few words of foreign origin.

The letter “Q” is always followed by the letter “U” in Spanish too. In this language “LL” and “CH” are no longer considered as a single letter.