[Ads-l] quotes for emphasis

[Jonathan Lighter]

Am not sure that anyone has looked into when it became common to use
quotation marks for emphasis rather than for skepticism or the like.

I've just seen a photo that seems to have been taken early last century,
perhaps before 1918, that shows a crowd behind a large sign that says:

                                               U.S. CIVIL WAR
                                                 "VETERANS"
                                          Not For Ourselves, BUT
                                            FOR OUR COUNTRY.

https://www.quora.com/Why-in-the-US-has-there-never-been-the-tradition-of-parading-military-vehicles-and-missile-launchers-as-in-North-Korea-China-or-Russia


JL
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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