• luciferofastora
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    3 months ago

    Maybe the rest is paraphrased for brevity, or maybe the author felt that this was the least believable part and opted to emphasise that he used that exact word.

    Or maybe it’s some weird rule about quoting a title assigned to someone or something? For example, the Wikipedia Article on Napoleon describes that he

    crowned himself Emperor of the French

    without quotes, but later mentions

    what became known as the “Hundred Days”

    with quotes. I’m neither a native speaker nor reveived particularly in-depth education on writing guidelines, so I have no idea. I just know that sometimes there are weird rules about quoting stuff.