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Danny Bate
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October 2025
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Why Q Needs U
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Porridge Magazine
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"I should probably declare a conflict of interest: Danny and I shared seven years in the same school tutor group. That said, Why Q Needs U, his impassioned homage to the English alphabet, is a marvellous read by any measure.
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"Danny Bates knows his alphabetical history. Each chapter discusses a separate letter of our alphabet, running from A to Z. He purports to present a stripped-down version of history, but it seems actually quite exhaustive (and exhausting - I don't rec"
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"I loved this book and could not put it down. I am thankful that the demands of the week allowed me to push through to the end.
This book is a history of the English Alphabet. Why the 26 letters? Why their particular order? Why do the letters look as t" Read more of this review » |
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"so hard to pick a favourite letter after all of this"
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“If another nation with a different language had been top dog, or if the alphabet had arrived after the Etruscan decline, our C might still have the sound /g/, and our alphabet would seem closer to its Creek crandfather.”
― Why Q Needs U
― Why Q Needs U
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