Thursday, February 02, 2006

Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks

Does it drive you crazy when people insist on putting quotation marks around a seemingly random word in a sentence or phrase? Have you ever seen a sign in a store saying something like this?

All Winter Clothing on "Sale"


Is it not really on sale? Is someone saying "sale" and not the rest of it?

As a former English major, I thoroughly enjoyed this Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks.

Check it out!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

uh-oh, I do this. I do it when I'm using the word to be something not everyone would understand. As in, I "know" the answers. By that I mean, intuitively, not learned or educated. Another one is, it "came" to me. Meaning it didn't physically come to me, it came to me in meditation or deep thought. So, does that bug you too? I bet it does. Smiles!

Staying in Balance said...

Hmmm...somehow I think those examples are a bit closer to the "proper" use of quotation marks. ;)

Staying in Balance said...

Well, I hope you don't get too annoyed by my sometimes poor spelling!

Staying in Balance said...

Well, I'm usually ont *that* bad, LOL!

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