Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation ...

Here at Co.Design, we’re not exactly fastidious for using typographically correct quotation marks, or apostrophes for that matter. Which, if you think about it, is kind of the point. Even a ...

Scare quotes (also known, even more colorfully, as “shudder quotes” and “sneer quotes”) are identical to standard quotation marks, but do precisely the opposite of what quotation marks are ...