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Willette
editI suppressed it from the list of the Norman surnames. The statement "is derived from Ouillette, itself from Ouilly, place-name in Calvados" is not serious.
- Willette is also a French surname. The w spelling is of course rare in official French (Paris French), but is a common Northern French spelling (North, Picardy, Champagne, Ardenne, Lorraine, Burgundy) and Belgian-French = Walloon. So the place-names and the surnames from these regions conserve W, when the corresponding spelling in Parisian French is G(u) (Wargnier = Garnier; Warin = Garin, etc.). Willette is a French surname from Champagne according to Albert Dauzat, but it is more probably from Lorraine, check here http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Willette&submit=Valider&client=cdip . Willette is also the surname of a famous French artist.
- Ouillette (if it exists ! would be pronounced in French [ujɛt] not [wilet] !) seems to be another spelling for Ouellet, Ouellette, surnames from the surname of a single Paris emigrant to Canada. It is not Norman. The spelling oui is not common in French, it only exists for oui (yes) and jouir (enjoy) and some rare place-names with a new spelling. For the surnames, oui is used to write the Arabic and Jewish names (in English wi).
- One of the Ouilly [uji] in Normandy explains the English surnames D'Oyly and Doily (according to the old spelling of the Norman villages names such as Oylley, Oilei, Oili) not *Ouillette. In France, the surnames deriving of place-names are never derived with the suffix -ette.Nortmannus (talk) 14:01, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
Time for a prune
editMuch of this article is WP:ORIGINAL. It has been tagged as needing additional citations for more than three years. Since no-one has stepped up to provide them, it is time for a prune. It also needs a good copyedit. "Among other things, the name Québec is not from Norman etymology" ... "The first settlers to Canada came from Normandy". The French Wikipedia doesn't even have an equivalent article, but it does say "Les colons français ... provenaient principalement de Paris, de l'Île-de-France et des provinces françaises d'Aunis, d'Anjou, de Bretagne, du Maine, de Normandie, de Bourgogne, du Pays-Basque, de Perche, de Picardie, du Poitou dont les Deux-Sèvres et la Vendée, de Saintonge et de Touraine." Or check this WP:COATRACK "Normans ... the name given ... to ... Vikings .... Their descendants, that completely mixed up with the local population ... It could be said that some of their ancestors were the first Europeans to discover North America in 1000 AD". Etc. --Cornellier (talk) 03:24, 6 December 2021 (UTC)