Welcome aboard Ben. This is as good a place as any for your question. As you explore our wonderful world, you'll see that the contents of categories and threads have only a tenuous relation to the titles.

I see nothing wrong with your first example of queue. I also see nothing with the use of queue as a verb: "We queued for hours only to find all the tickets had been sold by the time we reached the box office."

The only quiesce I know is the Latin imperative of a verb meaning "be at rest".

The current issue of "English Today" has an article called "Missing in Action" about the predilection in computer messages to users for unaccusatives (normally transitive verbs which have been made intransitive as an equivalent of the passive). For example, "Setup is initialising" rather than "Setup is being initialised", or "The page is downloading" rather than "The page is being downloaded."


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