Thread: Space Between Double and Single Quotes?
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Old 02-24-2023, 03:49 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by enuddleyarbl View Post
Yep. Those wrong leading apostrophe's have been popping up a lot for me lately (is there some special word for them?).
I'd suggest smart-ass quotes.

By the way, a(nother) pet-peeve of mine is calling the "curly" or "typographic" quotes (i.e. “ ” ‘ ’, OK, they'd be curly in a serif font, I guess) "smart" quotes. There's nothing smart about them, smart quotes are a word processor feature that lets you type the straight quotes (" ') and it automagically converts them to the right (or left... or wrong) curly quote. Those wrongly oriented curly quotes are probably the "smart quote" feature getting it wrong, so I think smart-ass quote is appropriate
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