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Show Quotation Blarks. "Quotation marks are 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 somo 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 forge a very singular idea concerning them 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 mo:iu. Perhaps that isn't a very distinct statement, but I remember well that I was quite tickled when later I learned that quotation marks were not signs to be used at tho fancy of tho writer, but might properly bo used only to indicate ti quotations. " NewJEork Sun. |