Que?

[MartyFunkhouser]

No, not quoting Manuel, but 🥴 at the number of posters on here that use ‘que’ for ‘queue’. Yesterday, someone had further Manuel-ed it up by adding an accent, ‘qué’ when they actually meant queue.

Does it not just look wrong? I just don’t get it.

Some people are dyslexic so it won't look wrong to them no.

They usually use it when they mean “cue”, eg “Cue the pedants posting on the thread.” It’s a ridiculous word, and I’ve only seen it used like this on MN.

I usually see it used for cue as well.

I see it on MN, Facebook and forums and it's ridiculously incorrect!

This phenomenon inspired a previous namechange of mine, which these days only gets resurrected to post on threads like these

OP, like @AgentProvocateur I tend to see it in place of ‘cue’. It’s distracting.

Excellent!

Maybe I’ll create a sister username ‘ItsQueuenotQue’

I'm new here. Are you actually allowed to use the dyslexia argument in Pedants Corner?

Don't loose your mind over it... my pet hate when the poster means lose.

Here! Here! OP.

Que is easier on the eye than NOONE 😖

(As usual, I had to google that one as for some reason I'm never confident about the right spelling ...)

I see this where people mean 'cue', and vice versa. They tend to be those same people who use 'tow the line'.

I see que everywhere. In place of both cue and queue. It drives me absolutely bloody mad!

@JaneJeffer I love the Language Guru How to English tip.
Succinct and useful.

On a similar thread recently, someone mentioned seeing skate goat. I love this! It makes just as much sense these days, i.e. very little, as the real word.

I saw the Economist get 'free rein' wrong yesterday. That depressed me.

Bloody Oliver Bonas had a sign in the window offering a 'sneak peak' at some items. I did wonder how many people saw that and signed it off before it was merrily sent out to hundreds of shops.

I saw a poster from Network rail with a grocer's apostrophe in it the other day. It's depressing.

My own husband, who I love to death says 'edge your bets' and 'exasperate' instead of exacerbate despite me telling him multiple times. I just leave well enough alone now. If those are the only things about him that annoy me then I'm doing alright. < quietly puts rolling pin back in drawer>

On a similar thread recently, someone mentioned seeing skate goat.

The image in my head🤣🤣🤣 My goat is skateboarding rather than roller skating ...

The one that drives me to distraction is ADVANCED NOTICE.

@LadyOfTheCanyon I recently contacted Sweaty Betty to tell them they’d done this in an email. It’s a common one.

Here it is. I told them good and proper!

Email.

Some time ago, Next were selling "Window pain check" pattern curtains.