Special Quotation Marks

rogersgeorge on February 2nd, 2023

I don’t know about the finger motions, but the quotation marks around the word “guilty” have a name.

https://www.gocomics.com/realitycheck/2023/01/24

They’re called scare quotes. Use them whenever you want to call special attention to a word, such as using it sarcastically, or as the punchline in a comic.

PS—the informal name for quotation marks in German translates to “little goose feet.”

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