Timeline for Double quotes in Switzerland for German texts (Guillemets/Gänsefüsschen)
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| Apr 15, 2018 at 13:41 | comment | added | Rudy Velthuis | @Jan: Guillemets are sidewise double chevrons. So the German and the Swiss/French variety are all guillemets. Just their directions differ (inward or outward) no matter what "Hubert" says. Note that many languages use them. Oh, and chevrons are the single variety, and they can be up-down (or vice versa), e.g. in heraldics, as well as left-right (and vice versa). | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 10:00 | comment | added | Jan | And as Hubert never gets tired to stress: »these« are called Chevrons and the name guillemets is reserved to «these». | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 13:26 | history | edited | user9551 |
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| Sep 22, 2014 at 14:44 | answer | added | user9551 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 19, 2013 at 20:12 | answer | added | Ole Albers | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 3:54 | answer | added | Pierre Arnaud | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 1, 2012 at 13:56 | answer | added | Pierre Arnaud | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 17, 2011 at 21:05 | vote | accept | Pierre Arnaud | ||
| Jul 17, 2011 at 11:10 | answer | added | Georg Schölly | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 16, 2011 at 7:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGerman/status/92131791271505920 | ||
| Jul 15, 2011 at 21:31 | comment | added | FUZxxl | BTW, in Germany we usually use Guillemets like »this«. The only exception is Switzerland. | |
| Jul 15, 2011 at 18:07 | answer | added | user508 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 15, 2011 at 17:07 | history | asked | Pierre Arnaud | CC BY-SA 3.0 |