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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/08/2023 19:14, Philip Taylor
(Small Acres) wrote:<br>
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<p>Well, the context in which I frequently do this is a
linguistics bulletin board, so typography is not uppermost in my
mind, whilst clarity is. So if the stretch of text that I am
quoting starts or ends with an English quotation mark (single or
double) or (worse) starts or ends with <i>two</i> English
quotation marks (because the author is already quoting someone
else) then I find that if I set it off with spaced guillemets
then it makes the text that <i>I</i> am quoting far clearer to
the reader.</p>
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<p>An example from today —</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">« '…"won" and "one" are perfect
homophones…' In which dialect of English is that? » — In British
English at least (tho' not necessarily the <i>whole</i> of the
British Isles). The LPD has "won" : /wʌn/ and "one" : /wʌn/,
although the Korean currency "won" is different — /wɒn/.</blockquote>
-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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