I love finding examples of random quotation marks in sentences. I've written about this amusing practice before, but I was determined to find fresh examples after a reader asked about them recently.
“We are teaching children to read in a foreign language.” GRACE BASTON, a former principal at a top public secondary school, on growing support within the education system to make Jamaica’s Patois an ...
The Wednesday New York Times article on Haisong Jiang, the man who inadvertently shut down Newark International Airport by slipping past security during the Christmas holidays, contains a quotation in ...
The words of Donald Rumsfeld are part of a huge new collection of quotations, The Yale Book of Quotations. It's full of wisdom from pundits through the ages. One of the newest places to find the words ...
For at least two centuries, it has been standard practice in the United States to place commas and periods inside of quotation marks. This rule still holds for professionally edited prose: what you’ll ...