Illustration from 1908 Chambers's Twentieth Century. <b>Q</b>, the seventeenth letter of our alphabet--absent from the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, in which the sound was expressed by <i>cw</i>; in Scotland replacing <i>hw</i>, now always followed by <i>u</i>.
Rev. Thomas Davidson 1856-1923 (<i>ed.</i>)
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language