# Test thread re "quotation marks"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-re-quotation-marks/84823>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 1, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-re-quotation-marks/84823 "2001-10-01T20:31:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-re-quotation-marks/84823/1 "2001-10-01T20:31:28Z")

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I’ll see about this myself. (More to come about the way quotation marks are added by computers at this college library.)

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-re-quotation-marks/84823/2 "2001-10-01T20:34:51Z")

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Well, it seems to work. But I still intend to hesitate about using quotes in new threads in General Questions or MPSIMS for a while…

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-re-quotation-marks/84823/3 "2001-10-01T21:39:26Z")

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Various methods of dealing with double quotes in the subject field are discussed here:[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30833](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30833)