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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker

Another bad habit of self-conscious writing is the prissy use of quotation marks—sometimes called shudder quotes or scare quotes—to distance the writer from a common idiom:

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