marks, boxes, or other symbols. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation...
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In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks...
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original source; such statements are marked with (punctuated with) quotation marks. As a form of transcription, direct or quoted speech is spoken or written...
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Guillemet (redirect from Angle quotation marks)
[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...
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’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. This is due to the many...
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apostrophes"; "a pair of marks " used underneath a word"; the symbol " (quotation mark); or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark). In the following example...
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ʻOkina (section Apostrophes and quotation marks)
ʻokina looks identical to the symbol for the curved single opening quotation mark. In others (like Linux Libertine) it's a slightly different size, either...
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Scare quotes (redirect from Sarcastic quotation marks)
Scare quotes (also called shudder quotes, and sneer quotes,) are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using...
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Bracket (redirect from Quine's corner quotation mark)
quasi-quotation, a generalization of quotation marks, or to denote the Gödel number of the enclosed expression. Half brackets are used in English to mark added...
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Hebrew punctuation (section Quotation marks)
”שָׁלוֹם”), with both quotation marks high. This is due to the advent of the Hebrew keyboard layout, which lacks the opening quotation mark ⟨„⟩, as well as...
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English punctuation (section Quotation marks)
Philippines). These two styles differ mainly in the way in which they handle quotation marks with adjacent punctuation and the use or omission of the full point...
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Japanese punctuation (section Quotation marks)
square quotation marks, ellipses, dashes, and swung dashes are rotated clockwise 90° when used in vertical text (see diagram). Japanese punctuation marks are...
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Punctuation (redirect from Punctuation mark)
are placed inside the quotation mark only if they are part of what is being quoted, and placed outside the closing quotation mark if part of the containing...
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Comma (section Differences between American and British usage in placement of commas and quotation marks)
many typefaces it is the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark ’. The comma is used in many contexts and languages, mainly to separate...
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characters used for quotation are: Quotation marks, usage in English language Quotation marks, international variation Quotation mark glyphs, various glyphs...
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Apostrophe (redirect from Apostrophe (mark))
feathers", "in one month's time", "the twins' coats") Use as a single quotation mark It is also used in a few distinctive cases for the marking of plurals...
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alternating between primary quotation marks and secondary quotation marks. For a comprehensive analysis of the major quotation mark systems employed in major...
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Dash (section Quotation mark–like use)
as Polish, the em dash is used as an opening quotation mark. There is no matching closing quotation mark; typically a new paragraph will be started, introduced...
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with quotation marks in a run-in quote. Block quotations are used for long quotations. The Chicago Manual of Style recommends using a block quotation when...
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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility...
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the quotation has ended.) Another convention is that a single quotation mark (") is not included as part of the string. However, an escaped quotation mark...
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ISO/IEC 8859-1 (section Quotation marks)
double quotation marks. Some fonts will display the spacing grave accent (0x60) and the apostrophe (0x27) as a matching pair of oriented single quotation marks...
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A damaging quotation is a short utterance by a public figure used by opponents as a discrediting tactic. These quotations may be inserted or alluded to...
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free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to quotations. "Quote" is a clipped form of quotation or quotation mark. String literals, computer programming...
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’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) in front of the t – and not confuse it with a left quotation mark (U+2018 ‘ LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) and put a space...
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The exclamation mark ! (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to...
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Gershayim (section Punctuation mark)
Most keyboards do not have a key for the gershayim. As a result, a quotation mark is often substituted for it. Writing portal Languages portal Look up...
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Prime (symbol) (redirect from Prime (mark))
little in appearance from those of the apostrophe and single and double quotation marks, the uses of the prime symbol are quite different. While an apostrophe...
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Quasi-quotation or Quine quotation is a linguistic device in formal languages that facilitates rigorous and terse formulation of general rules about linguistic...
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emoticons or emojis. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the intended characters. In typography...
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