single quotes

noun
(one pair of single quotation marks, written as (‘ ’) and used especially for a quotation within another quotation): He said, “I told you to say ‘Open, sesame’ when you want to enter the mountain.”
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Single quotes is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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There are three quoting mechanisms: the escape character, single quotes, and
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