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Quotation mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quotation marks or inverted commas (informally referred to as quotes and speech marks ) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase, or a word. They come as a p...
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Quotation mark glyphs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Different typefaces, character encodings and computer languages use various encodings and glyphs for quotation marks . This article lists some of these glyphs along with their Unicode code points an...
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Quotation marks for the latin script depend on the language quoted. Also rules for nesting exist. Various forms are used. ... When mixing languages, the quotation mark must match with the quoted language, not with the quoting language. See the example in the preceeding paragraph.
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The exact rules for quotation marks vary greatly from language to language and even from country to country within the English-speaking world. In North American usage, you should place double quotation marks (") before and after directly quoted material and words of dialogue:
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Where does the Quotation Mark Go? ... Remember eighth grade English when Miss Ambrosia Tinsdale tried to force feed you the rules of quotation mark placement? ... To say that the majority of published documents, both on the Internet and in print, contain mistakes with quotation mark placement, MIGHT be an exaggeration.
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