How would you pronounce “?
I would call it a quotation mark, compared to a ‘, which is an inverted comma, or a speech mark, depending on whether it’s used in a word like ‘it’s’, or if emphasising something that isn’t a direct quote.
After over thirty years in print and publishing, with many, many hours spent proof-reading lots of text, I tend to be pretty obsessive about correct spelling, pronunciation and usage, inverted commas should show as 6 9, and quotation marks as 66 99, which they actually do on my iPad keyboard – ‘’ and “”
There is a book about correct usage that my studio director was always using for correct spelling and usage in print; he took great delight in correcting poor spelling, punctuation, and general type layout mistakes provided by agencies.
Not that I always get it right, but most pronunciations I’ve learned to say correctly, despite being brought up in the West Country. 🤣
Tchotchke is pronounced Chat-ka (if you’re interested)
Now that’s interesting, I’ve seen the word used by William Gibson, and I know what it means, but I’ve never heard it spoken, so I didn’t know how it’s pronounced. Thanks for that, much appreciated.
Have we had ‘segue’ yet?
That one I learned the correct pronunciation years ago, from radio DJ’s.