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''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: {{Citation needed span|date=April 2021|text=the [[Irish language|Irish]] term is ''{{lang|ga|Liamóg}}'', from ''{{lang|ga|Liam}}'' 'William' and a diminutive suffix.}}
 
In [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe Systems]] font software, its file format specifications, and in all fonts derived from these that contain the characters, the glyph names are incorrectly spelled {{Monocode|guillemotleft}} and {{Monocode|guillemotright}} (a [[malapropism]]: [[guillemot]] is actually a species of seabird). Adobe acknowledges the error.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Adobe Systems Inc. |year=1999 |title=PostScript Language Reference: The Red Book |edition=3rd |publisher=Addison Wesley |isbn=978-0-201-37922-8 |at=Character set endnote 3, page 783 |oclc=40927139}}</ref> Likewise, [[X Window System|X11]] mistakenly uses <{{code>|XK_guillemotleft</code>}} and <{{code>|XK_guillemotright</code>}} to name keys producing the characters.
 
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