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Quotation marks [A] are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. [3] Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
Quotation marks in English. In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
ʻOkina. ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, meaning "Hawaiian language", within single quotes in the font Linux Libertine. The glyph of the two ʻokinas is clearly different from the glyph of the opening quote. The ʻokina ( Hawaiian pronunciation: [ʔoˈkinɐ] ), also called by several other names, is a consonant letter used within the Latin script to mark ...
Guillemet. Guillemets ( / ˈɡɪləmɛt /, [1] [2] also UK: / ˈɡiːmeɪ /, [3] US: / ˌɡiː ( j) əˈmeɪ, ˌɡɪləˈmɛt /, [4] French: [ɡijəmɛ]) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, « and », used as quotation marks in a number of languages. In some of these languages, "single" guillemets, ‹ and ...
The apostrophe ( ' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for three basic purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't".
This is a list of letters of the Latin script.The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'.
The semicolon ; (or semi-colon [1]) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought, such as when restating the preceding idea with a different expression.
The turned comma or inverted comma ( ‘) is, as its name suggests, a rotated comma. This symbol is most commonly encountered as an opening single quotation mark. It is also used for the Hawaiian letter ʻokina. In some older British texts, it was used as a superscript c to abbreviate for the Scottish name element Mac/Mc, also written as M ac ...