It's the oddest thing. This letter has been showing up CONSTANTLY today. I had two patrons with a Q in their names... and the reviewers I'm reading at the moment seem enamoured of q-words. So we have, in a nice neat, er, queue, no less than FIVE words I hadn't come across before:
qui vive*
quidnunc*
quiff
quincunx*
quotidian (actually, I'd never looked it up before-- and discovered when I did that I'd believed it to mean the opposite of what it DOES mean. heh.)
Lest this not seem much of an impressive trend, the low-carb column in the paper was featuring recipes on quinoa. And I also ran into quiver, quid pro quo, quarter, quinine, quidam, Quiddich, quibble, Q.E.D., and-- okay, they don't start with Q, but-- Proquest (vendor for some of our databases), jacquard and mosquito. All in one day. Queer, no? ; )
* Proof that being able to puzzle out the Latin won't always clue you in to how a word's used today-- tho' I got very close with quincunx.