English is weird

[Camy]

[Merkin]

The quirks and oddities you point out in the English language are there in revenge for having had to learn Latin declensions.

[Rutabaga]

Of course, "queue" is the French word for "tail" (and also a slang word for something else) and pronounced roughly like "kuh."  But then again, the French way of pronouncing the letter "q" sounds just the same.

G