4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future

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Ruth Finnegan, « 4. Quotation Marks: Present, Past, and Future », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.rz5njl


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quote (verb) 1387, ’to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginalreferences,’ from Old French coter, from Middle Latin quotare ’distinguishby numbers, number chapters’(Online etymology dictionary) We were well taught at school about the use of quotation marks(71 year-old acupuncturist from Oxford) Our writing and reading are nowadays pervaded by the symbols we know as ’inverted commas’, ’speech marks’, or ’quotation marks’ – or often just the shorter ’quote marks’ or ’quotes’, a term that...

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