Quotation Marks in English
English curved quotes, also called “book quotes” or “curly quotes”, resemble small figures six and nine raised above the baseline (like 6...9 and 66...99), but then solid, i.e., with the counters filled. In many typefaces, the shapes are the same as those of an inverted (upside down) and normal comma.
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