From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 05:29:20 CDT
At 09:39 +0100 2005/05/14, Michael Everson wrote:
>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. :-)
Both guillemot and guillemet are French irreg.
dim. of Guillaume William. So the fellow
apparently made more than one thing in his life.
:-)
-- Hans Aberg
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