A horribly incorrect way of citing a particular phrase or adding emphasis to a questionable term. Typically it preceeds the phrase and is accompanied by a stupid little fang finger gesture. If you currently use the term "quote unquote" (and especially if you do the finger thing) please stop it now. Don't feel bad. It's an understandable mistake because the idiots on Fox News say it all the time as does your boss at work, most probably. But read on...

First of all, it should be QUOTE and ENDQUOTE. These are the official names for the double apostrophe symbols (") on your keyboard.

Secondly, the proper syntax is to say QUOTE, followed by the phrase, closed by ENDQUOTE.

CORRECT USAGE (spoken):
What do you think of Bush's quote War on Terror endquote?

means:
What do you think of Bush's "War on Terror?"

INCORRECT USAGE (spoken):
What do you think of Bush's quote unquote War on Terror?

means:
What do you think of Bush's ""War on Terror?

Get it? Good. But try to avoid saying it altogether. Using the phrase "so-called" is much more acceptable. Example:
What do you think of Bush's so-called War on Terror?
> (Incorrect but common usage)
> BOSS: Ok people, let's get proactive. This is a win-win situation. So give it 110% and quote unquote kick some ass!
> EMPLOYEE: Man, you're such a putz.

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No, it is. You know why this place is amazing? 不,它就是。为什么这地方很神奇? Because very few people here are afraid to fail. 因为这里几乎没有人 是害怕失败的。 And no one who gets on the stage, so far that I've seen

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学英语单词
A-PATTERN
acetylcholine (ach)
activity-mass formula
Ameritard
amidinothiourea
aneucentric translocation
anthropotoponym
antiplug relay
antiresonant type
At-the-money
average life of well
blue - eyed devil
bond floatation
boom crotch
borek
Buryatiya, Respublika
cimside
common greenling
connection to ground
cradlings
Creatorus
dispersing device
earth oblateness
elastic porous flow
electronic automatic exchange (eax)
flat gate
friction cleaner
Frostbelt
genera(genus)
got disconnected
Graveley
greyth
hqt
hydrosprings
inn-keeper
international norms
intersols
intramontane trough
IRHC
irrevertible
IUSUHM
Japanese scavenger
jute paper
light marker
link aggregation
medium pace
Melicery
moon bears
moscou
nationalization of enterprise
naturopath
Neandertal
neo-atlantic period
nephrouropathies
neutrino-intensity
Ngan Cau
nominal income
non-retroaction doctrine
noncontinuous series
odd-even predominance of n-alkanes
oil-
parallel heading
pathogeny bacteriology
peard
peripheral devices
phosphorism
photoelectric measuring microscope
physical breaks
pick-up circuit
plum needle
plumptitude
Pozoblanco
press tempering
pressure system pulverizer
problem job
product variability
protoproteose
QO2
readjudication
revervation area
rudeboy
scandenolide
seastock
self priming device
single tape Turing machine
sirupus ferri jodati
Sombrabil
sporting gun
staphylococcia
stasigenesis(huxley 1957)
steam-rollers
subjective
summation metering
the reuters
Thiovulum
Toxocarpus
transloaded
trimembral
two-constraints fit
Uromys
wankstas
worm's-eye