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Queue is a Ridiculous Word

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By Atomic HistorianPublished about a year ago Updated 4 months ago 1 min read
Queue is a Ridiculous Word
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Queue is a ridiculous word

Its one letter followed by four silent others

Perhaps that makes sense

The one in the front is ordering

While the rest wait in line

But why?

When we have A and I

Oh, there we go again

Why not just Y?

Oh my, oh my

It just keeps going and going

O-h for oh

How is anyone learning supposed to know

How do they get clued in to this spelling disaster

What even are we after

This poem is absurd

Why am I obsessing over this word

Why do absurd, bird, heard, herd, and word rhyme

But not word and sword

Welcome to English

Where everything and nothing matters

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