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Tuesday 6 May 2014

Q is for Quack

The quiet of the morning is broken by the quack quack quacking of the ducks and some geese honking too.

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I've also seen a quack or two in my time but that's another story. I knew that a quack means someone who promoted unproven or fraudulent medical practices. I didn't know that the origin of quack comes from the archaic word quacksalver which has Dutch origins (kwakzalver in contemporary Dutch). The word literally means hawker of salve. In the middle ages the word quack meant shouting. I have paraphrased and copied this information from wikipedia. So without anymore quacking from me, link up and visit each other for some Q fun.
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23 comments:

  1. Quite right! Quintessential Quandary for Q words:(
    My Quest ends!
    Thank you for hosting Carver:)

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  2. Queen of the Q- Lexicon..Quack in a morning. Quite and idea.

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  3. Perfect photo and commentary for "Q"—love those QUACKING ducks and geese!

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  4. Q is usually so quirky. I love the Quak prompt. Thank you to the AAAQuality Team of ABCWednesday!!

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  5. Don't you just love etymology?!

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  6. I was wrong with the first picture, I'm sorry, I can not delete!

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    1. I assume you want 15, not 12? I will delete the former.

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  7. Hey there everyone, quakiddy quakiddy, quack, I am back. Hehehe. Been a while.

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    1. Roger, for some reason, your site won't load at my end..

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  9. Thanks for the explanation of the Dutch word "Kwakzalver". I didn't know this.

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  10. Carver always has another q, quirky info I learn something new each week

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  11. That's an interesting piece of trivia. I went for quality vs. quantity. Blessings!

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  12. what a fun piece on quacking!

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  13. Come to think of Orwell using "duckspeak" as insincere speech coming from the vocal cords without brain participating in it!

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  14. Greetings from Queenscliff, Victoria! Quite an elegant town with quality establishments and a quiet, ambience!

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  15. We have ducks that quack loudly at our local park but there is nothing louder when the Canada Geese fly over when they migrate to a wet land park not far away...it drives one 'quackers' after a while, but then such a quirky thing..
    Best wishes,
    Di..xx

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  16. quack quack.. i'm back finally after typhoon haiyan hit our town

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  17. Re: post #2, my ABBA post, my blog is currently down AGAIN! You can read the post HERE

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  18. I love the sweet ducks swimming about. Enjoy the weekend and thanks for sharing. Happy Mother;s Day from me to you!

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  19. I watched the NY Hudson river plane landing and I can't look at a Canadian goose the same way again.

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