Talk:mind one's pees and kues

RFV discussion: March–April 2022
Only seems to be spelled this way in the one specific book cited, and by nobody else. Equinox ◑ 21:46, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Nothing else coming up in Gbooks. But "kues" is a common way to spell Q's in the US, and presumably people would spell "P's and Q's" the same way they spell "Q's". "Pees and ques" is more common, though, despite the OED (1st ed.) having no attestation of "ques" after the 16th century. kwami (talk) 03:12, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
 * "Common" ??? DCDuring (talk) 13:44, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hard to compare, since "cues" is so much more common for its other meanings than for 'Q', and "que" gets false hits from Spanish. I'd be curious what the ratios are. kwami (talk) 00:06, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Try Google NGrams, as I did. See below. DCDuring (talk) 15:48, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Ngrams won't work because most spellings of Q have other meanings. kwami (talk) 23:29, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That is why my N-Grams searches were for the variants of "Ps and Qs" not for "Ps" and "Qs". See below where I report the results. DCDuring (talk) 23:49, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * It really doesn't matter. The point is that there is only one citation for the term under challenge. I couldn't find another one at Books or News. If two more qualifying cites are not found in 28 days, this entry is subject to deletion. DCDuring (talk) 23:55, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of any Wiktionary rule about "how things might plausibly have been spelled". Citations please. Equinox ◑ 19:31, 20 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Google NGrams doesn't have any hits for pees and cues, pees and ques, or pees and kues. And [p|P]'s and [q|Q]'s (with apostrophe) has long been more common than [p|P]s and [q|Q]s (without apostrophe), but not as much in the recent past. DCDuring (talk) 14:18, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
 * This looks like it should have something to do with waiting in line for restrooms... Chuck Entz (talk) 03:49, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 04:04, 27 April 2022 (UTC)