Q-tip
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- Grand Panjandrum
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Q-tip
Does anybody know why a Q-tip (also known as cotton bud/cotton swab) is called Q-tip?
Brazilian dude
Brazilian dude
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- Grand Panjandrum
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- Grand Panjandrum
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According to the Wikipedia entry,
Henri
Now they tell us !...The "Q" in the name stands for quality.
Henri
曾记否,到中流击水,浪遏飞舟?
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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And furthermore, thanks to the link in the Wikipedia article from Henri . . .
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
I, for one, will be sleeping better tonight! Thanks, Larry.2003 Q-tips Cotton Swabs remains the market leader and continually searches for new and improved opportunities to serve consumers. The company launched the first official Web site www.qtips.com.
-gailr
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- Grand Panjandrum
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I couldn't drop the idea and checked [url=http://education.yahoo.com/reference/di ... try/cotton[/url](2000).
Flaminius
Heritage is sounding unusually diffident here. Now I really drop the idea.qTn
To be(come) thin, fine, small.
COTTON, from Arabic quTn, quTun, cotton, perhaps akin to Akkadian qataanu, to be(come) thin, fine (of textiles), or perhaps borrowed from an unknown source.
Flaminius
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