Most often, quotation marks are used to show someone’s exact words. Sometimes, they also signal sarcasm or irony. In most cases, there is nothing especially unusual about this little punctuation mark.
An errant set of quote marks can completely change a sentence’s meaning. For instance, a Post-It that reads “I’m ‘sorry’ for eating your leftovers!” from your roommate suggests your roommate isn’t ...
The Manila Times on MSNOpinion
PH-US ’Pax Silica’ agreement offers words, and not much else
WILDLY optimistic reports this week have hailed the signing of an agreement between the United States and Philippine ...
InsideNoVa on MSNOpinion
From the Publisher: ‘Pink slime' arrives in Virginia
The "newspaper" started landing in my mailbox in February. I put "newspaper" in quotation marks because although it was ...
Times-Standard on MSN
Lori Dengler | April’s 1906, 1992 earthquakes and the triple-junction connections
"While the 1906 epicenter was just offshore of San Francisco, the rupture was very long, extending 200 miles north to Cape Mendocino and 60 miles south to Santa Cruz. This entire fault rupture was the ...
This hour-long, 360-degree film may skip over some chapters of Bowie’s career, but what is here is irresistible – and thrillingly huge ...
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Woman with warrant tries to hide from police in tree; Bremerton officer “steals” car to move it
Bremerton police recently used an unconventional but effective way to clear a roadway while taking a tree-climbing suspect ...
How much literary cultivation does a reader have to bring to the business of reading poems before the act of reading becomes ...
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Sabatini claims a mistake that led to the petitions' rejection shouldn't be cause for dismissal, but another legal expert ...
There’s a divide in the pollinator gardening movement between those who advocate for nothing but native plantings and those ...
Candace Owens has responded to President Donald Trump, Wonderwall.com can reveal, after she was labeled “really dumb and ...
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