Take the shape of quotation ... marks, for the reason that the same character can be used at the beginning and end of the sentence, thus saving one key.” Scribes and printers chose different ...

Here at Co.Design, we’re not exactly fastidious for using typographically correct quotation marks ... when using one key for two different marks helped save space on a keyboard.

Because they’re different punctuation marks. The marks around ‘me syndrome’ are single quotation marks. But the punctuation at the end of nothin’ isn’t a quotation mark. It’s an ...

Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation ...