Wednesday 27 January 2016

Queueueue

Queueueue: noun and verb. A queueueue (pronounced kyoo-yoo) is a queue about double the length of an average queue. To queueueue is to stand in such queue. Intuitively, a que (pronounced keh, like in Spanish) is a queue half the length of an average queue, a queueue (pronounced kyoo-eh) is a queue one and a half times longer than an average queue, and a queueueueueue (pronounced kyoo-yoo-yoo) is a queue three times longer than an average queue. To make these distinctions clearer, we include a table with the queue names, pronunciations, and lengths:

Name
Pronunciation
Length
Que
Keh
½ of a queue
Queue
Kyoo
A queue
Queueue
Kyoo-eh
1½ of a queue
Queueueue
Kyoo-yoo
2 queues
Queueueueue
Kyoo-yoo-eh
2½ of a queue
Queueueueueue
Kyoo-yoo-yoo
3 queues

You get the picture. Since you were probably wondering, when the length of the queue is indeterminably great, the correct term for the queue is "screw it, ain't nobody got time for that."

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