Quotation mark
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| Other names | quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, talking marks | ||||
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Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.