Cue or Que?

[Georgia rookie 903]

hey I guess to me it sounds like a Q sound I will spell it que from now on

[tbob4]

Oh no - no Principal office here. Do you know how many times people ask "I've hit the stall what do I do?" I still read the responses because I learn things and some people who have posted before actually learn a thing or two and add them to their responses.

[EdF]

Nyok! Nyok! Nyok! ;-)

[Troutman]

whoops rookie error, forgot to do an advanced search....my bad....which way to the principles office?

[tbob4]

You will like this: https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/fo...ue-or-barbeque

[Troutman]

The Grammarist web site talks about the word barbecue as being the most commonly used spelling while the word barbeque has become more common in the past several decades. It further goes on to say,

"The word has been spelled several ways since coming to English from the Spanish barbacoa in the 18th century (its earlier origins are fuzzy, though the conventional wisdom is that the Spanish adapted it from a term used among Caribbean natives). In the OED’s historical examples there are barbecu, barbacue, barbicu, and babracot,and today there are several abbreviated forms, including bar-b-q and just BBQ. Despite the many forms, barbecue gained clear ascendancy in the late 19th century, and it has gone unchallenged ever since."

So the question of the day, which are you a que or a cue ??