Re: Cyrillic guillemotleft and guillemotright

From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 18:35:15 CDT

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    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
    


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