What is the proper use of quotation marks?
Quotation marks or inverted commas (informally referred to as quotes[1] and speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character. They have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media: * For languages other than English, see Quotation mark, non-English usage. * For the various glyphs used to render quotation marks, see Quotation mark glyphs. For fragments of a human expression placed inside quotation marks, see Quotation. In English usage, they come as pairs in two forms: as single quotation marks (‘. . .’), and as double quotation marks (“. . .”). Contents [hide] * 1 Usage o 1.1 Quotations and speech o 1.2 Irony o 1.3 Signaling unusual usage o 1.4 Use–mention distinction o 1.5 Titles of artistic works o 1.6 Nicknames and false titles o 1.7 Emphasis (incorrect usage) * 2 Typographical considerations
