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Line 5: }} '''Guillemets''' ({{IPAc-en\|ˈ\|ɡ\|ɪ\|l\|əm\|ɛ\|t}},<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary\|guillemet\|~~accessdate~~access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/guillemet\|title=Guillemet\|work=[[Collins English Dictionary]]\|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]\|access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> <small>also</small> {{IPAc-en\|UK\|ˈ\|ɡ\|iː\|m\|eɪ}},<ref>{{Cite Oxford Dictionaries\|guillemet\|~~accessdate~~access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> {{IPAc-en\|US\|ˌ\|ɡ\|iː\|(\|j\|)\|ə\|ˈ\|m\|eɪ\|,_\|ˌ\|ɡ\|ɪ\|l\|ə\|ˈ\|m\|ɛ\|t}},<ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster\|guillemet\|~~accessdate~~access-date=7 June 2019}}</ref> {{IPA-fr\|ɡijmɛ\|lang}}) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double [[Chevron (insignia)\|chevrons]], {{char\|«}} and {{char\|»}}, used as [[quotation mark]]s in a number of languages. In some of these languages "single" Guillemets, {{char\|‹}} and {{char\|›}}, are used for a quotation inside another quotation. Guillemets are not conventionally used in the [[English language]]. <!-- Please do not add the single-element guillemet as being used in Mathematics and Computing, it is a different symbol as noted below under See Also --> == Terminology == Guillemets may also be called '''angle''', '''Latin''', or '''French quotes / quotation marks'''.{{cncitation needed\|date=May 2020}} ''Guillemet'' is a [[diminutive]] of the French name ''{{lang\|fr\|Guillaume}}'', apparently after the French [[printing\|printer]] and [[punchcutter]] [[Guillaume Le Bé]] (1525–1598),{{refn\|name="Microsoft-etym"\|{{cite web \|url=http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/punc.htm \|title=Character design standards, Latin 1: Punctuation Design Standards. § ''Pointing quotation marks – Guillemets'' \|website=Microsoft Typography \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103011454/http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/punc.htm \|archive-date=2012-11-03 \|access-date=2020-06-12 }}}} though he did not invent the symbols: they first appear in a 1527 book printed by [[Jodocus Badius\|Josse Bade]].<ref>[http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/guillemet Trésor de la langue française informatisé – guillemet]</ref> Some languages derive their word for guillemets analogously: {{cns\|date=April 2021\|text=the [[Irish language\|Irish]] term is ''{{lang\|ga\|Liamóg}}'', from ''{{lang\|ga\|Liam}}'' 'William' and a diminutive suffix.}} Line 55: * [[Spanish language\|Spanish]] (uncommon in daily usage, but commonly used in publishing) * [[Swiss languages]] * [[Turkish language\|Turkish]] (dated usage; almost entirely replaced with ~~“…”~~“...” by late 20th century) * [[Uyghur language\|Uyghur]] * [[Ukrainian language\|Ukrainian]] Line 103: === Keyboard entry === The double guillemets are standard keys on [[AZERTY]] and [[QWERTY#Canadian\|French Canadian QWERTY keyboards]] and some others. {\|class=wikitable Line 164: == See also == * A related pair of symbols, '[[Bracket#~~Angle_brackets~~Angle brackets\|angle bracket]]s' (a single chevron), {{code\|⟨}} and {{code\|⟩}}, is used for another purpose, in mathematics and computing. * [[Chevron (insignia)\|Chevron]] * [[Keyboard (computing)]] Line 178: {{Languages of France}} {{navbox punctuation}} [[Category:Punctuation]] [[Category:Typographical symbols]]

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