As a native English speaker I have helped some colleagues edit their writing. I love it when they use an English word I don't know. For the record "Quay"is a wharf or a bank where ships are loaded. I'll bet my crossword loving parents knew this one.
It's been a long day. I woke at 6AM, left for work by 7 taught all day and then worked on editing until 8PM. You'd think after being gone for 13 hours I'd get to sleep easily tonight. Nah, it's past 1AM and I have no hope of going to sleep soon.
Insomnia isn't the worse ailment to have but it sucks nonetheless.
It's word geek time:
ReplyDelete"quai" is an alternate spelling
the slightly more common synonym, in the US, is "key," from which "quay" derives
Back in the day, I got a lot of action with this type of etymological 411.