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Quotation mark

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.

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Other names
quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, talking marks

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Quotation dash

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Quotation mark

Nodes189
Edges188
Triples170
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010582
Components1

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Quotation mark

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related to External links · 23
Quotation mark → ASCII, Commonly, Curling Quotes, David, David Dunham, EnglishGrammar, French, Gallery, Greg Baker, Greg's References Pages, How, HTML, Markus Kuhn, Misused, Pauline Morfouace, Quotation Marks, SGML, Smart Quotes, Stack ExchangeIndex, Unicode
related to history · 18
Quotation mark → After, Ancient Greek, Aristotle, Britain, During, English, Etymologiae, Filelfo's, Francesco Filelfo, French, Greek, In, Isidore, Milanese Renaissance, Non-verbal, Seville, The, Until
related to Unicode code point table · 17
Quotation mark → Close, Final, In Unicode, Initial, Mark, Open, Other, Pe, Pf, Pi, Po, Ps, Punctuation, Several, They, Unicode, Yesby
related to Keyboard layouts · 15
Quotation mark → Also, Alt, Alt Gr, Curved, Early, IBM, Macintosh, Microsoft, Most, Nevertheless, On, Opt, This, Unicode, Windows
related to Quotation dash · 15
Quotation mark → Another, Bulgarian, French, Greek, Hungarian, James Joyce's Ulysses, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, This, Turkish, Vietnamese
related to Dutch · 11
Quotation mark → Although, Belgium, Brussels, English-style, Examples, Flemish HUMO, Metro, Most, Netherlands, Neutral, The
related to In English · 11
Quotation mark → Carol, Encounter, Farpoint, Go, In English, Mention, Quotation, Scare, Star Trek, The, The Next Generation
related to French · 9
Quotation mark → Even, French, Le Figaro, Les, Libération, Unicode, Using, When, With
related to Typewriters and early computers · 9
Quotation mark → All, American, APOSTROPHE, At, British, Instead, On, The ASCII, When
related to Typographic forms · 9
Quotation mark → ASCII, Because, Curved, English-language, QWERTY, Regarding, The, These, Type

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quotation marks used quotes english french curved use mark single double character quote also unicode needed guillemets closing different german

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Quotation markOther namesquotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, talking marks1.00infobox
Libérationinstance ofFrench news sites0.80text
Les Échosinstance ofFrench news sites0.80text
Le Figaro do not add manual spacinginstance ofFrench news sites0.80text
leaving it up to localizationinstance ofFrench news sites0.80text
the browser to space the guillemets properly.Initiallyinstance ofFrench news sites0.80text
the French guillemets were not angle shaped but also used the commainstance ofFrench news sites0.80text
Quotation markrelated to Belarusian, Russian, and UkrainianIn Belarusian0.60section
Quotation markrelated to Belarusian, Russian, and UkrainianRussian0.60section
Quotation markrelated to Belarusian, Russian, and UkrainianUkrainian0.60section
Quotation markrelated to Belarusian, Russian, and UkrainianBelarusian0.60section
Quotation markrelated to Belarusian, Russian, and UkrainianIn0.60section

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