It’s not an “alternative spelling” if the words deviated 300 years ago.
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Enkers@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoThey have womewhat distinct uses today, but cue in this sense is an alternative spelling of queue:
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Eh, in this circumstance, when you watch a video on YouTube, you’re literally adding it to a queue. Both queue and cue are appropriate.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not really.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes really. There is a “now playing” queue that is active even when you’re watching a single video.
xionzui@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If you read what you linked, the meaning where they overlap is in the sense of a tail or something hanging down. The cue in the sense it’s used here, as a prompt to act, was in use since the 1500s in theater. The use of queue to mean a line only began in the 1800s and probably came out of the now basically unused meaning of cue/queue to refer to a tail-like thing. Curly cue and pool cue are the only remaining uses I can think of. Queue has basically lost that meaning in favor of its new one thanks to IT applications.