Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Symbols used to denote a quotation in writing, written at the beginning and end of the quotation. The symbols vary across languages, and slightly different marks may sometimes be used at the beginning and end of the quotation. See below and quotation mark for the symbols used in the English language, which vary between the United Kingdom and North America.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Print.) two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.
Examples
“Geof put verbal quotation marks around the word confessed and also around sin, but maybe I was the only one who heard them.”
“The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang notes an absence of capitalization or quotation marks in this citation and thinks it “probable that the 1909 quotation represents a metaphorical or perhaps proverbial usage, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“15 Like the placement of periods before or after quotation marks and conventions about how to write out the date, the trivalent diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine is referred to differently depending on which side of the Atlantic you find yourself on, with “DTP” being the preferred abbreviation in the U.K. and “DPT” the accepted one in the United States.”
“She spoke playfully and in quotation marks of “my family” and seemed to show a preference for the two New Zealanders, Douglas Grace and Ursula Harme.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quotation marks’.
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Marks
names of punctuation marks, accent marks, and other graphic signs and graphical characters used in printed, written, or digital text.
comma, period, parenthesis, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, slash, stroke, brackets, dash, em dash, en dash and 71 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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The Glyphs & How to Name Them
Being a list of the proper names of glyphs, both exotic and common, found in the typographer's toolbox.
ogonek, macron, horn, hook, dot, diaeresis, umlaut, circumflex, cedilla, inverted breve, breve, double grave, grave and 60 more...
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Punctuation
Obvious to obscure, they make words make sense.
period, comma, colon, semicolon, quotation marks, exclamation point, question mark, apostrophe, ellipsis
Tweets
Looking for tweets for quotation marks.
plethora Meh, I mix and match, depending on context. Jun 23, 2009
Telofy I could never decide whether to use quotation marks in "American style" or in "British style", meaning whether to put those punctuation marks that don't belong there into the quotation. (I, by the way, used those pseudo quotation marks in the last sentence to indicate that I actually know a few books by American authors that employ "British style" and vice versa.)
To me the first option looks flowier, while the second one has the distinct advantage of not being so illogical and ambiguous.
This morning I had the idea that I might use both versions: "American style" when writing fiction and "British style" when writing non-fiction. Do you think that is an acceptable compromise? Jun 23, 2009
reesetee You'll find "many" quotation marks "here."
Nov 27, 2007