From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 03:39:51 CDT
At 01:35 +0200 2005-05-14, Hans Aberg wrote:
>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.
The Irish name for those is "liamóg", a
diminutive of Liam, which is derived from
William. :-)
Not that one speaks about these very much in Irish....
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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