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Stop Quotation Mark Abuse with this Simple Test

photo of quotation marks signageToday, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com, I reprise and expand my advice on scare quotes.
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Link to my Canadian, Eh? column on Copyediting.com

 

Photo by Quinn Dombrowski used under CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

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