Updated 7/28/2000! You've ''seen'' them. Maybe on a sign at the ''grocery'' store, maybe in an ad in your ''local'' newspaper. Even in a ''memo'' that circulated throughout your company. They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places. Such as...

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