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How do you pronounce 'Que!' as in 'Que! Fire CDRW'?
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All this Spanish has got me thinking...how do you pronounce 'Que!' in the QPS line of drives? I've always assumed it was Spanish sounding, as in 'kay', but the other day, I was watching TechTV, and they were talking about external CDRW's, and they kept referring to the QPS drives as 'cue'...
You know, you would think I would have better things to do than to ponder the pronunciation of a certain Firewire CDRW...actually, I do have better things to do. It's just that I'm too lazy. 
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I always pronounced it as cue.
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I'm going to pull your head off because I don't like your head.
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Originally posted by mjpaci:
I always pronounced it as cue.
cue here too.
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Pronounced "cheesy".
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I always thought of it as Queue, but, same thing. 
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I pronounce it like "kweee!"
But thats just me....
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i've always yelled it out at the top of my lungs because of that exclamation mark.
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That's very interesting -- I always thought it was pronounced the way the French say "que", i.e. with a hard "k" sound, sort of like "ker".
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I always pronounced it "felch." I suppose that's why people always laugh at me at Fry's.
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Or laugh at you here. . . 
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The people where I bought mine pronounced it "cue eee", so of course since that was the first time I had heard it, I thought it was right.
Got some strange looks since then though...
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I play pool, so its cue thanks
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An interesting, if slightly tangential thought -- how many languages have the word "que", and how differently is it pronounced? Something for a cunning linguist to investigate, I think...
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I say "Kay", probably from my spanish in high school
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Isn't it zee, tell me I'm not the only one who thought it was zee.
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