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