Do you use quote marks in the wrong place?

Blogger `exposes' Annoying Quote Abuse

By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer

Friday, September 21, 2007

(09-21) 15:49 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) –

Ms. Noveck writes:

Isn't it "funny" how something can "really annoy" you for ages and then you discover via "the Internet" that the same thing "really annoys" thousands of "other people," too? The blight that Bethany Keeley exposes on her "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks ( ) is of a benign sort, of course, nothing like global warming or endangered wildlife.

But it bothers people mightily just the same, as this 24-year-old grad student and language-lover has discovered from the hundreds, occasionally thousands of visitors she gets daily. And nary a day goes by when she doesn't receive a bunch of e-mails with photographic evidence of quote abuse, misuse or overuse.

Click here to continue reading this story.**

Click here to go straight to the blogger’s blog.

** Apologies for sending you to the SFGATE link.

This is one blog entry that I hope my students will note well.

http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/21/entertainment/e114200D30.DTL