Pet peeve: unnecessary quotation marks

posted by Rob on 2009.03.09, under Writing/Grammar
03.09
said the store owner.

said the store owner.

And is that an apostrophe in “restroom’s”? The unnecessary quotation marks are a pretty common error on signs, but I still find it amusing. In fact, I’ve never understood why the mistake is so common.

Turns out there’s a whole blog dedicated to them—The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.

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the only thing worse than unnecessary quotation marks is unnecessary AIR quotation marks. SSSSSMACK!

Lauren ( September 3, 2009 at 11:24 am )

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