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{{Short description|Former blog about the misuse of English quotation marks}}
{{Infobox website
| name         = The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
| url          = [http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ www.unnecessaryquotes.com]
| type         = blog
| language     = [[Social:English language|English]]
| registration = None
| author       = Bethany Keeley
| launch_date  = July 1, 2005
}}

'''''The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks''''' is a blog about the misuse of [[Social:English language|English]] quotation marks. The blog features photographs of signs, notes and advertisements that misuse quotation marks, usually intended as emphasis. Most photographs are reader submissions, curated and commented on by blog author Bethany Keeley-Jonker, who generally intentionally misinterprets the depicted sign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blogger.com/profile/08163733354894909762 |title=Bethany Keeley's Blogger profile}}</ref>

==History==
The blog was started in 2005, and after being featured on [[Company:Yahoo!|Yahoo!]] became an Internet phenomenon.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jocelyn|last=Noveck|title=Blogger "exposes" Annoying Quote Abuse|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092101247.html|newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|location=[[Place:Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C.]]|date=2007-09-01|accessdate=2008-06-26}}</ref>

In September 2016, nearly a year after the previous post, Keeley-Jonker announced that she would no longer be updating the blog,<ref name=Thanks>[http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/2016/09/thanks-everybody.html Thanks Everybody], by Bethany Keeley-Jonker, at ''The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks''; published September 5, 2016; retrieved January 31, 2017</ref> but in March 2020, making "absolutely no promises about the long term", she began updating it again, suggesting that "people wouldn't mind something silly to look at" during the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref name=Return>{{cite web|url=http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/2020/03/ok-were-back-short-term.html|last=Keeley-Jonker|first=Bethany|date=2020-03-22|title=Ok, we're back. Short term.|work=The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks|accessdate=2020-07-16}}</ref>

==Influence==
The theme of the blog has become an [[Social:Internet meme|Internet meme]].  On occasion, some businesses will correct their signs after being featured on the blog.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/2008/03/influence.html|last=Keeley|first=Bethany|date=2008-03-18|title=influence|work=The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks|accessdate=2010-01-18}}</ref> In May 2008, [[Software:Blogger (service)|Blogger]] removed unnecessary quotation marks from a cancel button on the service's delete page.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/05/updates-and-bug-fixes-for-may-9th.html|author=Blogger|date=2008-05-09|title=Updates and Bug Fixes for May 9th|work=Blogger Buzz|accessdate=2010-01-18}}</ref>

==Other media==
A related book was published by Chronicle Books in July 2010. The book is titled ''The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks|url=http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,8916/|website=Chronicle Books|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224211955/http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,8916/|archivedate=December 24, 2010}}</ref>

==See also==
*Amphibology
*Apostrophe Protection Society
*Scare quotes

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226001016/http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ |date=December 26, 2016 |title=The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks}}
* [http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,8916/path,1-42-37/title,The-Book-of-quotUnnecessaryquot-Quotation-Marks/ Book Listing]
* [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/funny_pages_20/2008/05/the-blog-of-unn.html ''Los Angeles Times'' article]
* [http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/stories/2008/09/24/national_punctuation_day.html ''Atlanta Journal Constitution'' article]
* [http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20070924/OPINION01/709240013/-1/opinion01 ''Washington Herald'' article]
* [http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2008/04/19/419_425/ ''Salon'' article]

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