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From: gwb@crosfield.co.uk (George Battrick)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: universality of Latin-1
Message-ID: <9504@sun101.crosfield.co.uk>
Date: 18 Apr 91 17:11:03 GMT
References: <1110@sranha.sra.co.jp> <ENAG.91Apr12040930@maud.ifi.uio.no> <1991Apr14.024739.3042@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>
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In article <1991Apr14.024739.3042@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu> dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu writes:
"In article <ENAG.91Apr12040930@maud.ifi.uio.no>, enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
">As an example, using guillemot quotes +like this;, if you get + and ;,
"'Guillemet'.  This word was misspelled by some jerk from Adobe, and now
"no one knows how to spell is right. :)
"
This is more amusing than I had realised.  The <<French>> quotation
marks, as approximated on the line above, are indeed called
"guillemets": the pronunciation is approximately "gee-uh-may" (hard
"g" as in "get").  But there *is* a word "guillemot". It's pronounced
"gilly-mott" (again a hard "g"), and it's a sea-bird of the awk
family.

[No: nothing to do with the Unix "awk"  :-) ]


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