Subject: Re: Misc questions
From: Paul (listmstr@posom.com)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2001 - 23:00:01 CDT
On Saturday, October 13, 2001, at 01:22 PM, Robin Turner wrote:
> Sam TH wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> It's also "big brother" in Turkish ;-)
"my father" in hebrew, though that's also tranliterated as avi.
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