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>BTW, I was writing from here for our local newspaper back home, and their lector (i.e. copy editor) had a known habit of inserting quotation marks around any word which sounded like someone may have once said it with a smile, and I stopped writing when (s)he put quotes around a few names of places in my article. It's not restaurant "Taos" that I went to, it's a place with real people living in it... moron. And I didn't want to have someone meet me some day and chide me for abuse of quotation marks (wanted to say "abuse of quotes" but then "quote" has too many other meanings).

Oh my gosh. You have been here too long. A couple sentences in that paragraph were written as though an American born and raised in this country wrote it Dragan :o)