On 06 Jul, 2004, at 09:07 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

At 05:52 PM 7/6/04 -0700, Mark D Lew wrote:
(who thinks scare quotes are incorrect

I just heard the term "scare quotes" a few weeks ago for the first time,
when Andrew Stiller used it on O-List. When did the previous meaning
(approximately "I'm using your term but I don't really agree with the
usage") turn into a pejorative ("scare quotes")?

In fact...

From WordNet 2.0:

1. scare quote -- (the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology)

- Darcy

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