On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Georg Baum wrote:

> I read somewhere:
>
> quote is short -> short quotation
> quotation is longer -> long quotation

Georg/Steve,

   Yup. There's a thread in the archives from last year when I asked the same
question. The mental neumonic (sort of) is short word == short (usually 1
paragraph) quotation, long word == long (multi-paragraph) quotation. It's
worked just fine for me this way.

Rich

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