Talk:General Discussion/@comment-114.79.37.124-20141214095143/@comment-25730832-20141215050434

Quotation Marks   "

In English writing,  quotation marks or  inverted commas, also known informally as  quotes or  speech marks[1]  or as  quote marks, quotemarks or  speechmarks, are  punctuation marks placed either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a  quotation,  direct speech or a  literal title or name. They are also used to indicate that the meaning of the word or phrase they surround should be taken to be different from (or, at least, a modification of) that typically associated with it (e.g., in the sentence  the elite...