Quotation Mark (other)
Quotation marks 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. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media. History The single quotation mark is traced to Ancient Greek practice, adopted and adapted by monastic copyists. Isidore of Seville, in his seventh century encyclopedia, , described their use of the Greek ''diplé'' (a chevron): The double quotation mark derives from a marginal notation used in fifteenth-century manuscript annotations to indicate a passage of particular importance (not necessarily a quotation); the notation was placed in the outside margin of the page and was repeated alongside each line of the passage. In his edition of the works of Aristotle, which appeared in 1483 or 1484, the Milanese Renaissance humanist Francesco Fi ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

" (other)
The symbol is a Quotation mark (a punctuation mark used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase). The mark also resembles other characters, and is sometimes substituted for them: * Double prime (), used for: ** Inch, a unit of length in the United States customary and the obsolete (British) Imperial systems of measurement ** Arcsecond, a fraction of an arcminute * Ditto mark (), a typographic symbol indicating that the word(s) or figure(s) above it are to be repeated * Gershayim (), a typographical mark in the Hebrew language * Modifier letter double apostrophe (), a modifier letter used in the Tundra Nenets and Dan languages {{dab ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]