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quotation mark

a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else; quotation marks, also called quotes or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.

Wikipedia and Wikis

Quotation mark - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

Other

French Quotes Typography (Œuvrez les guillemets!) -- in French
http://marcautret.free.fr/sigma/pratik/typo/guille ...
The Gallery Of "Misused" Quotation Marks
http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/
Curling Quotes in HTML, SGML, and XML
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html
ASCII and Unicode quotation marks
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
Quotation marks in the Common Locale Data Repository
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/by_type/deli ...
Commonly confused characters
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters ...

Related Terms

quote (v): to put quote marks around.
Synonyms: quote, quoted

Keywords and Synonyms

quotation mark, quotation marks, quote mark, quote marks, quote, quotes, inverted comma, inverted commas, speech mark, speech marks, guillemet, guillemets "Guillemets are quotation marks in French writing."