Quidnunc takes its employees - now 150 - on a vacation each year.

Quiz, 3 Mar 2010: Are you a quidnunc of quirk?

"The quidnunc who quibbles over every quirk.

Quidnunc (2007)

Gossip monger (a quidnunc)

Mr. Wong, 26, is a computer consultant in Manhattan for Quidnunc Ltd., a technology consulting business.

Rawlinson suggests his name may be derived from the word 'Quidnunc'; a popular term in the eighteenth century for a busybody and know-it-all.

After the war he re-joined The Irish Times (using the pseudonym Quidnunc), and given charge of the column "Irishman's Diary".

Providing a strong salary and benefits package is only part of the equation, said Laurence Holt, chief executive of Quidnunc, a consulting firm in New York that helps businesses develop E-business strategies.

Ongoing attempts were made in print as well, starting from the earliest days with a mimeographed newsletter, "Musings," from 1975-79 with "Quidnunc," and later in expanded course catalogs and the quarterly "Art Lines."

An Irishman's Diary was penned by Patrick Campbell in the forties (under the pseudonym 'Quidnunc'), by Seamus Kelly from 1949-1979 (also writing as 'Quidnunc'), and more recently by Kevin Myers.

I knew he was acquainted intimately with Alvin Benson and his entire camarilla; and I knew, too, that he was an egregious quidnunc who might have got wind of some enmity between the Benson boys and have suspected the truth.

His project, as he went on to expound, was to withdraw from the round of idle pleasures such as form the chief business of sir Fopling Popinjay and sir Milksop Quidnunc in town and to devote himself to the noblest task for which our bodily organism has been framed.