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inverted commas
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inverted commas

Another term for quotation marks.



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Here, McCulloch is much more scrupulous in his use of adjectives--as in "black," "African" and, all too often, "native," a colonial derogative about which the author should have warned potentially unsuspecting readers, if only with the use of the occasional inverted comma.
I have put 'catalogue' in inverted commas, because although the Behlings claim it to be nothing more, its quality, in terms of image and the pedigree of its contributors make it more like an exhibition in its own right.
The norm's use of inverted commas round these two words indicates that the Vatican authors deny them to be genuine correction or improvement.
 
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