Each week The Old Editor will attempt to address ... The tipoff could be whether the initial quotation marks are double (U.S. style) or single (British). Incidentally, semicolons and colons ...

Wichary says in Poland, the lack of Polish-style quotation marks („ and ”) have led ... “They sure do look nicer to old people like you and me, but frankly do they actually add any magical ...

There is no way to fix that behavior, other than turning off smart quotes, which will end up with the old style straight quotation marks. "There are a slew of explanations for curly quotes in MS ...

She said, “When you call me ‘stewardess,’ it sounds old-fashioned ... movies and songs go in quotation marks? That’s not a right-or-wrong thing. That’s an editing style thing.

Quotation marks are used to set off a person's words ... Ex: "We'll go back to living in caves," said Old Man Warner to the crowd, "and we'll be eating chickweed and acorns." A colon may be used if ...

Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest ... to converge on a recognizably modern style. Samuel Richardson’s practice ...

Sticking a period or comma in front of the closing quotation marks ... The old way is just too established. When I asked Feal and Carol Saller, who oversees the Chicago Manual of Style, if there ...

And Wikipedia is adding to the American rule’s demise because the online encyclopedia follows British style for quotation marks. Most of our friends, family and favorite bloggers make the ...

Double quotation marks are used for direct quotations and titles of compositions such as books, plays, movies, songs, lectures and TV shows. They also can be used to indicate irony and introduce an ...