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"Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis."
(FYI... cuz I didnt know, and knowledge is meant to be shared... quisling means "A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country" and is derived from the name of Norwegian fascist leader Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945). An army officer, he served as military attaché in Petrograd (1918–19) and Helsinki (1919–21) and later assisted Fridtjof Nansen in relief work in Russia. He was Norwegian minister of defense from 1931 to 1933. He then left the Agrarian party to found the fascist Nasjonal Samling [national unity] party. In 1940 he helped Germany prepare the conquest of Norway. Remaining at the head of the sole party permitted by the Germans, he was made premier in 1942. Despite his unpopularity and difficulties with his German masters and within his own party, he remained in power until May, 1945, when, after the Germans in Norway surrendered, he was arrested. He was convicted of high treason and shot. From his name came the word quisling, meaning traitor.)
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the random fact was quisling, the word... and the fact that it's the only word in the english language to begin with the letters Q-U-I-S.. the stuff about Quisling was just random info for in case you one day decide to challenge Ken Jennings to a game of Trivial Pursuit :D
Perhaps, but no one here in the U.S. uses quisling (that I'm aware of). However, Quiznos, a chain of sandwich shops, makes fairly good submarine sandwiches. How's that for a random fact?
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