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 ...

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 ...

Inverted commas make it clear when someone is speaking by sitting high up above the speech. Making sure they stay either side of what's being said, they open at the start and close at the end of the ...