Thread: Is there a name for this?
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Old 11-02-2015, 05:26 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Ripplinger View Post
I've also seen it before, but often with the phrase in italics, or single quotes a few times, but never in double quotes.
Could just be because it was first printed in 1857, rules change
It was fairly standard to put the titles of books, films, etc in quotation marks a few decades ago where now you would put them in italics, so probably the same kind of thing.
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