Because they’re different punctuation marks. The marks around ‘me syndrome’ are single quotation marks. But the punctuation at the end of nothin’ isn’t a quotation mark. It’s an ...

Many writers seem to think that the single quotation mark is a perfect choice anytime you sort of want quotation marks, but also sort of don’t: The word ‘legend’ gets thrown around a lot.

Use Quotation Marks to Find Files Another interesting search combination is using quotation marks to locate files. You can find all kinds of file types through Google, specifically.

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young people – aged from 13 to 28 – were rewriting the rules to “shift” the ...

I love finding examples of random quotation marks in sentences. I've written about this amusing practice before, but I was determined to find fresh examples after a reader asked about them recently.

I think that Donald Trump has invented a new use for quotation marks. In several now-famous tweets, the president accused Barack Obama of wiretapping him during the election. Trump used quotation ...

Web publications often favor straight quotation marks, a pragmatic approach to typography that old-school stylists can’t stand.

I got a couple of emails this past week from potential clients who had different situations they were needing help with but they both made frequent use of "quotation marks." ...

Busy legal writers can be driven to the brink of sanity by quotation marks that face in the wrong direction. On the legal writing professors' listserve, Jan Levine (at Duquesne University), has ...