They are inaudible and unpronounceable. They do not exist in spoken English—they are at best a pause rather than a presence: no one (with apologies to those listening to this article in our audio ...

SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...

AS THE question implies, to describe quotation marks as inverted commas is only half true. The reason is that printed characters have evolved from hand scripts. If you draw curved quotation marks by ...

Everyone over the age of three knows that you can add inverted commas to make Google search for an exact phrase – but there are some tricks known only to elite Google Ninjas. Whether you’re searching ...

RADZI CHINYANGANYA: This is Manchester Central Library which is home to over half a million books and books are amazing things. With words alone they can take you to a new fantasy world or perhaps ...

For as long as I can remember, we, the Bangladeshi people, have struggled to understand where our inverted commas should go. This I have observed in my students’ argumentative essays -- “My name is ...