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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

Remember: You do not have to use the title builder - simply enter the title and question as you normally would and click submit!

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Scottish place names and villages

tollview | 11:36 Thu 21st May 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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A young seagull (7)

item of clothing

local paper

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johnalex

Scourie . . . . sounds like scaurie

johnalex

. . . . just found matching bird spelling, 'Scourie'

tollview

Question Author

think I may has mislead you (incl myself!)
clue actually reads:

A young sea gull (7)

many thanks

johnalex

Hi tollview - sorry for long delay. Just to clarify, a young gull is SCAURIE also spelt SCORIE, whereas the place name is SCOURIE. I thought I'd found the same spelling for the bird but can't now prove it! So maybe it's a soundalike clue? Anyway here are my refs, Regards ja:

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionarie s/difficultwords/data/d0011580.html

http://www.onelook.com/?w=scorie&ls=a

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

tollview

Question Author

Many thanks for taking the trouble to send details - I'll go with that

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