Definitions
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- noun
“ (opening quotation mark) - noun
” (closing quotation mark) - noun
״ (gershayim) - noun
〃 (ditto mark) Used in lists or tables to indicate a repetition of appropriate content above - noun
″ (double prime, as in inches)
Etymologies
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Typographical simplification, particularly due to the use of typewriters, thence followed in computers: rather than having separate opening (“) and closing (”) quotation marks (and other keys for ″ and others), a single square key was used, to reduce the number of keys.
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