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hateboss t1_jdp1vkd wrote

Reply to comment by fauxfox66 in "Potato" chips vs Potato chips by Doctuh

Using quotations marks for emphasis is actually a real Boomer thing with an actual reason behind it. Back when typewriters were used, there was no bold or italicized font as you would need a whole new typeset, so they commonly used quotation marks to provide emphasis.

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Logical-Ad2288 t1_jdoz6p4 wrote

True story!

I work as a nurse in the county and one day I asked the owners daughter-in-law (who happens to also be a nurse, last name Fox!) why it says “chips”. So she went home at the end of her shift and asked her husband to ask his dad and his response was, “I have no idea, I was never really that good at English in grade school.” Haha

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