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inverted comma

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in·vert·ed comma (n-vûrtd)
n. Chiefly British
A quotation mark.
inverted comma
n
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) another term for quotation mark
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Noun1.inverted commainverted comma - a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
quotation mark, quote
punctuation mark, punctuation - the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
single quote - a single quotation mark
double quotes - a pair of quotation marks
scare quote - the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology


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Here, McCulloch is much more scrupulous in his use of adjectives--as in "black," "African" and, all too often, "native," a colonial derogative about which the author should have warned potentially unsuspecting readers, if only with the use of the occasional inverted comma.
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I have put 'catalogue' in inverted commas, because although the Behlings claim it to be nothing more, its quality, in terms of image and the pedigree of its contributors make it more like an exhibition in its own right.
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The norm's use of inverted commas round these two words indicates that the Vatican authors deny them to be genuine correction or improvement.
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