We’ve all seen them and wondered: Are these scare quotes? We usually lump them together with unnecessary capitalization (that needs its own blog). Now, someone has taken the time to assemble a wonderful (and growing) collection of unnecessary quotation  marks. We reproduce a few samples below. Click here to visit the site. Send in your own.

I’ll bet you “are.”

Now that’s a cool nickname. It’s like something from No Country for Old Men.

Ummm, I guess I’ll have to take your word for it. . . .