Scare Quotes Inside Punctuation

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Scare quotes inside punctuation. Elizabeth anscombe coined the term scare quotes as it refers to punctuation marks in 1956 in an essay entitled aristotle and the sea battle published in mind. Commas and periods that are part of the overall sentence go inside the quotation marks even though they aren t part of the original quotation. Since there was never a typographic tradition of putting large punctuation such as question marks inside the quotation marks when they don t logically belong there the question doesn t even arise for. Authors of ancient greece used a mark called a diple periestigmene for that purpose.

After that your reader will know where it came from so further scare quotes are redundant. The serbs are closing in on the safe haven of goražde. As such if you re working to a style guide make sure to look for advice about this kind of punctuation. In ame style the punctuation is almost always inside any sort of quotation.

Bre may make a distinction i do at my workplace for example between pieces of quoted speech and words that are special with punctuation marks inside the double quotes for speech and outside the single marks for special use. Quotation marks and adjacent punctuation. With scare quotes it s unlikely that the question mark will be part of the quote or scarewords rather than part of the matrix question. As with most aspects of writing different style guides have different rules about scare quotes.

The use of a graphic symbol on an expression to indicate irony or dubiousness goes back much further. Style guides and scare quoting. Quite often scare quotes are used to express irony or sarcasm. The origins use and abuse of scare quotes by susan doose.

Part of the original question remains unanswered. The reason for scare quotes around the expression scare quotes is that the excruciatingly proper eschew the use of quote as a noun in favor of quotation for the quoted matter itself and quotation marks for the punctuation used to demarcate it. The point here is that the town has been officially declared a safe haven by the un whereas in fact as the quote marks make clear it is anything but safe.