At 2:45 PM -0700 11/30/09, Bob Angle wrote:
>Much has been discussed about the 531 decal but I have seen nothing about
>the little triangles flanking the 531. Bob Hanson pointed these out to me
>some time back. I think they are single quote marks and would be "proper
English". They seem to have appeared late 60's early 70's
At least the French-language version had the triangular quotation marks in 1951 and 1952... but they were gone in 1974.
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