Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!njin!uupsi!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ifi!enag
From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: universality of Latin-1
Message-ID: <ENAG.91Apr22014807@maud.ifi.uio.no>
Date: 21 Apr 91 23:48:13 GMT
References: <1110@sranha.sra.co.jp> <ENAG.91Apr12040930@maud.ifi.uio.no>
	<1991Apr14.024739.3042@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>
	<9504@sun101.crosfield.co.uk>
Sender: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
Followup-To: comp.std.internat
Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway
Lines: 25
In-Reply-To: gwb@crosfield.co.uk's message of 18 Apr 91 17: 11:03 GMT

In article <9504@sun101.crosfield.co.uk> gwb@crosfield.co.uk (George Battrick) writes:

   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.

I looked this up in my French-English dictionary, and the stupid Brit
who "translated" it managed to make it into "inverted commas".  Geez.

Guillemot is indeed a bird, also in English, according to the same
dictionary.  Then again, Norwegians call `"' "goose-eyes", so one more
bird didn't look overly strange to me.  :-)

--
[Erik Naggum]					     <enag@ifi.uio.no>
Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway			   <erik@naggum.uu.no>