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quotation marks Noun, pl the punctuation marks used to begin and end a quotation, either `` and '' or ` and '
Translations quotation marks npl → comillas fpl quotation marks quotation npl → guillemets mpl quotation marks quotation npl → Anführungszeichen pl quotation marks npl → virgolette fpl How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| You can always tell what is from the original by the quotation marks, if by nothing else. Then I saw that the quotation marks wouldn't do, so I snipped them off, and to make it seem likelier, snipped the whole quire to match. Three days, at white heat, completed his narrative; but when he had copied it carefully, in a large scrawl that was easy to read, he learned from a rhetoric he picked up in the library that there were such things as paragraphs and quotation marks. |
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