What is the proper style for inserting a person’s nickname into his or her written full name? Most stylebooks specify placing the nickname after the forename and enclosing it in quotation marks. Some ...

Quotation marks are used to set off a person's words, whether spoken or written. They are placed at both the beginning and end of the quote. Ex: Sue remarked, "I'll meet you at the movies," A comma is ...

Q. I sometimes need to type foot and inch marks in my documents, but Microsoft Word converts them to curly quote marks. Is there a way to bypass this behavior? A. For occasional straight quote marks, ...

It’s now more than two months since I started blogging. It has not always been trouble-free. Two months ago, all I knew about WordPress was that it was software bloggers used. For a change of pace ...

What are news readers to make of quotation marks in an article or headline? It seems a simple question, but this punctuation occasionally causes a misimpression. The issue arose recently after The ...

If you’ve ever encountered ads for “fresh” ground beef or “pizza” by the slice, you know all too well the scourge of inappropriate quotation marks. And no one mocks misplaced punctuation better than ...

Stop what you're doing and look around. How many signs, marketing posters, or product packages do you see riddled with grammatical errors? If you have any with overused quotation marks, like my ice ...