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Quotation marks [A] are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. [3] Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
Diple (Ancient Greek: διπλῆ, meaning double, referring to the two lines in the mark >) was a mark used in the margins of ancient Greek manuscripts to draw attention to something in the text. It is sometimes also called antilambda [citation needed] because the sign resembles a Greek capital letter lambda (Λ) turned upon its side
Latin: "The die has been cast"; Greek: "Let the die be cast." Julius Caesar as reported by Plutarch, when he entered Italy with his army in 49 BC. Translated into Latin by Suetonius as alea iacta est. Ἄνθρωπος μέτρον. Ánthrōpos métron. "Man [is] the measure [of all things]" Motto of Protagoras (as quoted in Plato's Theaetetus ...
U+00AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+00BB » RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+2039 ‹ SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+203A › SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; Despite their names, the characters are mirrored when used in right-to-left contexts.
With the invention of the typewriter, a "neutral" or "straight" shape quotation mark, ', was created to represent a number of different glyphs with a single keystroke: the apostrophe, both the opening and the closing single quotation marks, the single primes, and on some typewriters even the exclamation point (by backspacing and overprinting ...
In British English, punctuation marks such as full stops and commas are placed inside the quotation mark only if they are part of what is being quoted, and placed outside the closing quotation mark if part of the containing sentence. In American English, however, such punctuation is generally placed inside the closing quotation mark regardless.
In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
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