Scare quotes
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title:
Scare quotes
text:
Scare quotes are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense. Scare quotes may indicate that the author is using someone else's term, similar to preceding a phrase with the expression "so-called"; they may imply skepticism or disagreement, belief that the words are misused, or that the writer intends a meaning opposite to the words enclosed in quotes. Whether quotation marks are considered
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description:
Quotation marks used to indicate non-standard usage
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
date created:
2004-10-09T19:35:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T17:59:17Z
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