Such quotation marks do not, strictly speaking, come under the heading of scare quotes, which are quotation marks used to convey that the writer finds a term too slangish to sit on its own (I have old books in which young people listen not to jazz but to “jazz”; it makes me chortle every time) and/or is sneering at it. Avoid scare quotes. They’ll make you look snotty today and, twenty years on, snotty and comically obsolete.*39
