When rounding up my commissions by Ian McMillan and the producers of Radio 3’s The Verb, I somehow missed this one.
The theme of the programme — in October 2012 — was the letter Q.
As far as possible, I made every word in the story, apart from things like a and is and who, contain at least one Q.
I have been quite preoccupied with Q recently, because, in my alphabetical sequence, I have reached novel Q.
(It’s been going pretty well, thanks for asking. But right now I’m still back to basics, looking to make causality. More news soonish.)
Q is a very weird letter. And the frequent use of it leads one toward infrequently used words. And French and Latin.
Some pieces of writing you do, you really don’t know what you think of them.
For me, this below is one of the biggest I don’t knows.
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