Subject: Re: Misc questions
From: Dr. David B. Teague (dbteague@quixnet.net)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2001 - 03:55:08 CDT
The ant is small but works hard. It can lift many times its weight. Sounds
like AbiWord to me.
Since I don't have clue as to the origins, a _possible_ origin is the
phrase, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard..." which praises the ant for its
industry. Is the quote from Proverbs? I must depend on memory as I have
neither my copy of Bartlett's Quotes nor a Bible at hand.
David Teague
dbteague@quixnet.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu>
To: Lan Barnes <lbarnes@san.rr.com>
Cc: abiword <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: Misc questions
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:05:19PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
> A couple of gee-whiz questions:
>
> 1. What is the origin of the name "abiword"? (I keep wondering if it's
from
> the aberrant brain in "The Young Frankenstein": Abby Normal.)
Abi is the root of the spanish word abierto, which means open.
>
> 2. What is the origin of the blue ant icon? Not the artist's name (that
> would be nice) but why?
>
I don't know why, but the artist is Scott Boesch, I believe.
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