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She covers the punctuation mark’s history (which began in 1494 Venice, in a travel narrative about scaling Mount Etna) and changing grammatical function, from creating rhythm to separating two ...

But the punctuation at the end of nothin’ isn’t a quotation mark. It’s an apostrophe. And to avoid errors in tough situations like these, it helps to understand single quotation marks and a ...