Pet peeve: unnecessary quotation marks
posted by Rob on 2009.03.09, under Writing/Grammar
03.09
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.
