From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 18:35:15 CDT
At 01:00 +0200 2005/05/14, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
>>A guillemot is a bird. The marks which you are talking about are
>>called guillemets.
>
>I know, but I used the English term used in Unicode names, because
>the message was in English. I don't know if the French term
>"guillemet" is actually an acceptable or prefered term for English
>too.
My Merriam-Webster's dictionary mentions guillemot as a bird and
guillemet as the symbols << and >>. It says that the latter is the
French irreg. dim. of Guillaume William, reputed name of its inventor.
-- Hans Aberg
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri May 13 2005 - 18:36:56 CDT