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For many, quine = young woman

If you've ever been to Aberdeen, the one in Scotland, then you'll know that they have a very distinctive accent. They also have a wide ranging, and pretty much universally used dialect called Doric.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_Northern_Scots

Doric has some fabulous words. Quine, which is in common use, is not really one of them, I'd say, but here's a decent list, and remember this is how the taxi driver will talk to you when you get of the plane/train:

http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/doric.php

He'll probably say: Far y'ga'ahn?

For the record, a boy is a loon, and a bloke is a teuchter, a great word you hear all the time.

But what the heck a rotating quine is, I have no idea.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)

In computing, a quine is a computer program which produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.


If it helps, "quine" here sounds like "wine," not "queen."




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