WQ - in doric country, thats north of the tay and east of the spey, a quine is a wife or married woman. it pretty much compares to the old fashioned term goodwife. it is often wrongly translated as whore, but in fact is much closer to meaning an experienced woman with a healthy sexual appetite, like Chaucer's wife of bath. Chaucer also uses a similar word quente, the trans of which my beloved english prof "could not bring [herself] to say even in these liberated times". So not poo then... wee just means small, as i suspect you know. UC gerrard - I have a similar tale about Richard Thomson, but it's not ED based so i'll desist...