Sideways double chevron (« and ») used as a quotation mark in some languages
Not to be confused with guillemot, several species of seabird.
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Guillemets
U+00AB«LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK («) U+00BB»RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (»)
Guillemets (/ˈɡɪləmɛt/,[1][2] also UK: /ˈɡiːmeɪ/,[3]US: /ˌɡiː(j)əˈmeɪ,ˌɡɪləˈmɛt/,[4]French:[ɡijəmɛ]) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, « and », used as quotation marks in a number of languages. In some of these languages, "single" guillemets, ‹ and ›, are used for a quotation inside another quotation. Guillemets are not conventionally used in the English language.
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Guillemets (/ˈɡɪləmɛt/, also UK: /ˈɡiːmeɪ/, US: /ˌɡiː(j)əˈmeɪ, ˌɡɪləˈmɛt/, French: [ɡijəmɛ]) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double...
uses, guillemets also appear. Guillemet marks pointing inwards are used for highlights and in case a quotation occurs inside a quotation. Guillemet marks...
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own biography pages; information about others may be found here. Nicole Guillemet was born in Paris, France. She was a social worker in 1997. She received...
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17 Whitehouse 1999 Chevalier 1839, p. 7 De Félice 2009, p. 62 Barton & Guillemet 2005, pp. 176–186 Barton 2001, pp. 16–25 Haussonne et al. 2005, pp. 715–733...
in HTML tags). The characters for "single" guillemets ‹› are also often used, and sometimes normal guillemets «» when nested angle brackets are needed....
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not keep running the school and passed the role of headteacher to Julie Guillemet, a friend of hers and FCJ sister. It was at first an industrial school...
example: Some grammatical constructions are also different: In the North, guillemets (《 and 》) are the symbols used for quotes; in the South, quotation marks...
as: «Je suis fatigué.» (in French, each "double punctuation", as the guillemet, requires a non-breaking space; in Russian it does not). In the French...
it is usually enclosed in quotation marks, but it can be enclosed in guillemets (« ») in some languages. The cited speaker either is mentioned in the...
'map' to or from a standard US QWERTY keyboard with the sole loss the guillemet/degree sign key. Its significant difference from the US standard is that...
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