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'''Guillemets''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|ɪ|l|əm|ɛ|t}},<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|guillemet|
== Terminology ==
Guillemets may also be called '''angle''', '''Latin''', or '''French quotes / quotation marks'''.{{
''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.}}
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* [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (uncommon in daily usage, but commonly used in publishing)
* [[Swiss languages]]
* [[Turkish language|Turkish]] (dated usage; almost entirely replaced with
* [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]]
* [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]
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=== Keyboard entry ===
The double guillemets are standard keys on [[AZERTY]] and [[QWERTY#Canadian|French Canadian QWERTY keyboards]] and some others.
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== See also ==
* A related pair of symbols, '[[Bracket#
* [[Chevron (insignia)|Chevron]]
* [[Keyboard (computing)]]
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{{Languages of France}}
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[[Category:Punctuation]]
[[Category:Typographical symbols]]
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