SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...
AS THE question implies, to describe quotation marks as inverted commas is only half true. The reason is that printed characters have evolved from hand scripts. If you draw curved quotation marks by ...
Thulasi K. Raj’s article, “ Ways to read the Constitution ” (August 28), was erudite. In it, she elaborated the Canadian approaches to interpretation: namely, the original meaning of words used in the ...