[ih] On queueing from len

[Toerless Eckert]

American routers have no queues but only lines. 

On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 04:29:54PM -0400, Bernie Cosell via Internet-history wrote:
> On October 5, 2022 16:01:29 Bill Ricker via Internet-history
> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Some of these guys have happily adopted my “unusual” spelling of “queueing”
> > > with the extra “e” since I loved the idea of it being the only word in
> > > english with 5 vowels in a row (if you spell it the British way, which is
> > > why I chose the British spelling).
> > 
> > I am unreasonably pleased that this was intentional Britishism for this
> > especially nerdy purpose !
> > (Among my harmless sins is using 'perl' extended regular expressions to
> > cheat at word puzzles.)
> 
> how odd, and i apologize since this is not a forum for this kind
> of quibbling, but what is "british" about queue?   it came from the
> french {yes, via england since they was no "america" when it was
> borrowed} but there's no other spelling of "queue" that i know of.
> and no other word that means queue