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Go further North (the Orkney Islands) and it gets more interesting yet, as the Norse influence creates a whole new dialect.

• arethuza 10y ago
  The North East of Scotland has a particularly "interesting" dialect - things like "Fit like ma loon?" I'd love to know where the terms "loons" and "quines" for boys and girls came from. It's a sair fecht.
  • wolfhumble 10y ago
    Loons I am not so sure about (http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/loun http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/loun has some interesting info on the name though, see e.g. item 5) but quines sound somewhat similar to the word for woman in today's Scandinavian languages: Danish: kvinde, Norwegian: kvinne and Swedish: kvinna. You can also find it again in the word Queen (originally woman) that seems to share similar words and meanings in different European languages: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/queen http://www.dictionary.com/browse/queen Fascinating stuff! :-)
    • arethuza 10y ago
      My family is from a North East fishing village and apparently I've got one Finnish ancestor about ~300 years ago - I've wondered if that's where I got my distinct epicanthic folds from!
      • wolfhumble 10y ago
        It's all in the family! :-)
    • jacobush 10y ago
      Before the Swedish zpelling reform a century ago, "kvinna" used to be typed "qvinna". So even there, not far removed from "queen".
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  • jhbadger 10y ago
    "Quine" is a great name for a girl because after all, she can produce a daughter. Although sans parthenogenesis, the daughter's not an exact copy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
    • ranit 10y ago
      Not quite similar: > ... program which takes no input ... The only recorded human quine produced a son.
• grey-area 10y ago
  Braw