Fact · Languages and accents
Apple's French Mac table maps the spoken phrase 'deux-points' to the colon (:).
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“deux-points : virgule , tiret”
Commandes pour dicter du texte sur Mac, Apple Inc. (Aide Mac, French), 2026, Typographie table (French).
Open the original- What it measures
- The French table lists each punctuation mark beside the spoken phrase for it, in the same list as the question mark and the guillemets.
- What it does not show
- The table gives the phrases and the marks only. It does not say whether the colon is set with a space before it.