Check Out These Awful 'Ads' With 'Unnecessary' Quotes

Writers think they're drawing attention to a word by using quotes liberally. But if you're a formal English usage maven, it probably drives you nuts.

As a refresher, quotes are used to denote direct words from someone's mouth, to showcase a word as a word (like using "this" instead of "those") and to point out that something isn't real.

So scare-quotes suggest the sign might be lying — as in this handwritten notice for "fresh" guavas from "Mexico."

We got these "hilarious" examples from the Unnecessary Quotes blog.