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Show Quotation Merita 'Quotation marks ore not Infrequently Infrequent-ly misused in signs, "said a stroller, "tho marks being placed about names, as, for instance, tho name of a place, or about some descriptive phrase in a sign, though tho word or the phrase may really not bo a quotation at all, but I am never surprised at any misuse of quotation marks, for I cannot forget 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 wore sort of partly quoted, quot-ed, moro or less, whatever that maj mo:in. Perhaps that isn't a very distinot statement, but I remember well that I was quite tickled when later I learned that quotation marks were not signs to be used at the fancy of the writer. but might properly bo used only to indicate aotual quotations." New York Sun. |