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Qantas

Not Quantas. (Originally registered as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited, now registered as Qantas.)

QC

As abbreviation for the Canadian province of Quebec use standard punctuation. Do not use for Quebec City; spell out in full. As an initialism for Queen's Counsel, spell out on first mention except after a name, in which case set off with commas from other honors. Do not in any case use the dot.

QE2

Spell out Queen Elizabeth 2 on first mention, thereafter QE2 or the ship. Do not describe as a liner.

qi

Prefer this spelling over chi.

QinetiQ

Note capitalisation.

quadriplegia, quadriplegic

Not quadra-.

Quai d'Orsay

Location of, and metonym for, the French Foreign Ministry, which is on the Left Bank (south) of the river Seine.

al-Quds

The Arabic name for the disputed city, also known as Jerusalem. Use lower case east/west al-Quds. Generically speaking, use al-Quds in articles concerning the Palestinian portions of the city, but include explanation for the more widely-recognized in English name Jerusalem. Do not use al-Quds as a metonym for the Palestinian state as it is not recognized as the Palestinian capitol, and its status is one of the central controversies of the Middle East.

Do not use the Wikipedia article about Jerusalem as a reference; like the city, it is currently dominated by a pro-Israeli POV.

Québécois

Not Quebeckers.

Queen, the

Use a qualifier, i.e. the Queen of Aruba (see Wikipedia's lists of current queens and all queens as to why.)

Note that each royal court tends to have its own ettiquette. For the Queen of the United Kingdom, after first mention she may be referred to as Her Majesty or HM, but not Her Royal Highness (HRH).

Queen's and Queens'

The variants generally, but not always, are due to reference to a specific individual versus the title generically.

The following always use 's:

• Queen's birthday honours list
• Queen's Club (in London)
• Queen's College, Oxford, officially The Queen's College
• Queen's Park, the oldest football club in Scotland shares its name with the London Tube station.
• Queen's speech
• Queen's University Belfast, officially The Queen's University of Belfast

The following always use s':

• Queens' Bedroom, Whitehouse, Washington D.C., USA
• Queens' College, Cambridge
• Queens' Guard, College of William and Mary
• Queens' School, Hertfordshire

Queens Park Rangers

No apostrophe, English football club, full name at first mention, QPR thereafter.

queueing

Not queuing.

quicker

Never use as an adverb - use more quickly. "He ran more quickly." For adjective use only, modifying a noun; e.g. "a quicker pace".

quicklime, quicksand, and quicksilver

Not hyphenated.

quiz

Neither police nor prosecutors quiz their subjects; they question them.

Quorn

When referring to the food product, trademarked (™).

quotation marks

Use double quotes to mark the start and end of of a quoted section within the article. If a quoted section continues for more than the single paragraph, use a quote template, or blockquote html tag, to set the entire quoted section off from the body text of the news article.

Use single quotation marks in headlines, section headers around quoted sections.

Use double quotation marks around titles of songs, poems, and essays, as well as around song lyrics. Use double quotations in captions.

Nest quotes within quotes, alternating single and double quote marks. e.g. "Amy's shout that 'Stupid quotes like George's "boring" are annoying!' is, itself, a boring quote," said James.

When a quoted section ends in a full-stop, and the attribution is to be appended, substitute a comma within the quotation mark. e.g. "Omit needless words," declaims William Strunk junior. In most other cases the punctuation at the end of the quoted section is enclosed unaltered within the quotation mark. Where no punctuation closes the quoted section, or when the quoted section is exceptionally short, no punctuation is included inside the quote mark. e.g. They used insults like "immigrant", "tribal", and "savage".