Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and ...
SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...
AS THE question implies, to describe quotation marks as inverted commas is only half true. The reason is that printed characters have evolved from hand scripts. If you draw curved quotation marks by ...
Everyone over the age of three knows that you can add inverted commas to make Google search for an exact phrase – but there are some tricks known only to elite Google Ninjas. Whether you’re searching ...
Thulasi K. Raj’s article, “ Ways to read the Constitution ” (August 28), was erudite. In it, she elaborated the Canadian approaches to interpretation: namely, the original meaning of words used in the ...
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