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Show Quotation Mt,xks. "Quotation marks are not infrequently infrequent-ly misused in signs," said a stroller, "tho marks being placed about names', as, for instance, the name of a place, or about some descriptive phrase in a sign, though tho word or tho phrase may really not bo a quotation at all, but I am never surprised at any misuse of quotation marks, for I cannot forgot a very singular idea concerning then that I had myself in my earlier days. 1 used to think that single quotation marks about anything meant that the words inclosed were sort of partly quoted, quot-ed, more or less, whatever that maj mciu. Perhaps that isn't a very distinct Etatoment, but I remember well that I was quite tickled when later I learned that quotation marks wore not signs to be used at the fancy of the writer, but might properly bo used only to indicate actual quotations." New York Sun. |