Mark Koenig, Bethesda For the past 30 years, I have enjoyed Patrick M. Reynolds’s cartoon strip “Flashbacks,” which provided great historical insights to the story of D.C., and its people.

WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! Quotation marks are often misused, ‘amusingly’ December 23, 2019 at 1:36 a.m. by BERNADETTE KINLAW, SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE ...

He doesn’t like prologues, dialogue without quotation marks, big words that are artificial, and the rest. Chapter 16: I share the opinion that you should set off dialogue with quotation marks.

Here at Co.Design, we’re not exactly fastidious for using typographically correct quotation marks, or apostrophes for that matter. Which, if you think about it, is kind of the point.

Authors who have eschewed quotation marks include E.L. Doctorow, David Guterson, Charles Frazier, Nadine Gordimer, Kate Grenville, William Gaddis and (sometimes) Raymond Carver.

Ben Yagoda’s students reach for quotation marks when they realize they’ve written a cliché. But the president of the United States? Something else is clearly going on.

OK, so this isn't strictly about law. I mean, it is insofar as it relates to the governor's race and the governor signs things into law and both major ...

Another annoying journalistic tic: the single-word quotation.I suppose that what, if anything, is in the reporter’s mind is an impulse to indicate that the subject’s exact words are being quoted.

Quotation marks may be used to set off words used as words. Ex: The words "its" and "it's" are often confused. Do NOT use quotation marks in an attempt to justify the use of slang or cliched ...