@snutz Do You Not Like the Dew Anymore Snutz You Think Youll Ever Queue Again

• #4

Havfruen and Copyright give good suggestions. Sometimes the first of the queue is obvious simply there may be odd people who look every bit if they might exist in the queue, just then once again they might simply be standing around waiting for someone. In such a state of affairs, I would say, 'Are y'all in the queue?'

• #viii

I think request the same question a while ago and the respond I got from an Englishman was "Who's last, please?"

Yes, that would work too. If at that place are people waiting to exist served (say, someone at a post office counter), the server might likewise say, 'Who's starting time, please?'

• #eleven

I've never heard "Who's concluding delight?"

But that's exactly what I was told when I asked this question. I've been trying hard to remember who told me that, but I can't.
I do hope to hear from some other British people hither. I couldn't take made up that phrase myself.

Thank you.

Last edited: February 15, 2011

• #17

Ah once more!

Anello'south post 1 asks near what we say when at that place is a queue.

If you're wanting to ask what nosotros say when at that place isn't a queue, then I honestly don't think the situation arises these days in the UK. At that place'due south either a queue or you know y'all're going to be called forward (to encounter a doctor for example) according to a set schedule.

But thinking dorsum to the long-ago days when you could plough up at a md's surgery without an date and simply sit and wait your plow - so I think "who'southward last?" would probably be an appropriate question.

In practice, though, I think nosotros used to do what Fabulist suggests in post 9 and simply memorise who was there when we arrived/who came in after us.

Last edited: February sixteen, 2011

• #22

I can't concur with you or Myridon here. Actually the person asking hasn't joined the line yet so how tin can he/she be the last? Besides, this kind of respond would sure exist considered an insult or disobedience. At to the lowest degree in Russian federation.

You wouldn't ask the question if y'all didn't want to bring together the queue. And it would oftentimes exist said with a big smile, similar this -> Subsequently all, many people in a line volition be sharing some compassion for the situation you're all in.

Last edited: Feb xvi, 2011

• #26

I would never recollect of asking "Who's last?" in this state of affairs, as it implies that the speaker's interest is in that person, when in fact what one needs to know is: where is the cease of the queue? And that is what I would (and practise) ask: I look to run across what appears to exist the end of queue and ask a person there "Is this the end of the queue?".

Last edited: February 16, 2011

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• #28

The question is who you volition inquire if yous accept no thought where the end of the queue is. Are you going to enquire anybody "is this the end of the queue?" ... that's exactly what will make people smile.

Whether or non they are the end of the queue/line, a reasonably helpful person volition answer by telling you lot where the cease of the line is, if they know, or where they think information technology may be, if they don't. Most people aren't trying to set grammatical traps for other people, at least where I live.

At the place where I purchase coffee, the end of the line of people placing orders often extends to the surface area in which people stand effectually waiting to pick up their drinks. We don't always know whether a person is in line or waiting for their drink. We tend to ask the question Mole suggests, except that we say "line" because nosotros speak American English:

Is this the end of the line?
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• #29

Merely one last(?) thing almost queues.

FIFO (First in Last out) queues conventionally have heads and tails in various theories about their properties. The tail of the queue is where you join and the head is where y'all leave the queue to exist serviced.

It is a shame that we do not utilize this terminology and all follow the FIFO principle for normal things. Priority queues for emergencies solves one of the problems of FIFO queues....

GF..

Want to know more than? And then there are the parallel queues to pay for the weekly supermarketgoodies.... And then at that place is .......

• #30

The question is who you will ask if you have no idea where the end of the queue is. Are you going to ask everyone "is this the terminate of the queue?" ... that's exactly what will make people smile.

In my experience a queue, one that can nonetheless exist chosen a queue, does non get disorderly to the extent that information technology is non possible to identify possible ends. There are more often than not very few, and the almost probable is unremarkably fairly obvious. Information technology is merely a thing of being sure. I wouldn't say "Is this the finish of a queue?" when confronted with an unruly mob of waiting people. I'm basing what I have said on actual experience, and in Great britain that is non difficult to come past.

• #36

Proffer: "Is this (where I join) the line [for (Ten)]?", asked of the person you think is last in the line.

• #38

This well-nigh contempo question has been added to a previous thread.
Chary, moderator

Dear All,

I usually ask:
Excuse me, are you standing in line

hither

?
I am Polish and this is how nosotros ask in our language. However, a friend told me the word "here" does non sound natural in this question.

I wonder if others agree.

I recollect of such situations like when you are in a crowded airdrome hallway and information technology is hard to figure out where the line to Starbucks starts. Or when you kickoff forming a line to board the plane at the gate.

Cheers in accelerate.

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