Editing Quotation marks in English (section)

=== Irony ===
{{Main|Scare quotes}}
Another common use of quotation marks is to indicate or call attention to [[Irony|ironic]], dubious, or non-standard words:

{{block indent|1=<poem>
He shared his "wisdom" with me.
The lunch lady plopped a glob of "food" onto my tray.
He complained about too many "gummint" regulations.
</poem>}}

Quotes indicating verbal irony, or other special use, are sometimes called [[scare quotes]]. They are sometimes [[gesture]]d in oral speech using [[air quotes]], or indicated in speech with a tone change or by replacement with ''supposed[ly]'' or ''so-called''.