why backtiks for a word?

[zeal]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Julie Sullivan
<kernelmail.jms at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM, mechanical amit
> <mechanicalamit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2011 7:50 PM, "zeal" <zealcook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it.
>>> Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
>> It might be a  carry over from the tex/latex world. In tex/latex a backtick
>> ` is used to open a quote a forward tick ' is used to close it. Similarly a
>> double backtick `` for opening double quotes and two forward ticks '' for
>> closing double quotes. This way tex/latex is absolutely sure that you want
>> opening or closing braces.
>>
>> Regards
>> Amit
>>>
>
>
> Well done for deciphering the question, Amit! ;-)
>
> Zeal, this isn't a kernelnewbies question so isn't really appropriate
> for this mailing list, but having said that it is kind of difficult
> googling for punctuation marks when you don't know what they are
> called :-). So you might find this helpful; the punctuation mark ` is
> also known as a backquote or a grave accent (as well as a backtick as
> Amit pointed out) and here is a link to it on Wikipedia. There's some
> info on its use in various programming contexts at the bottom of the
> page:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent
>
> Cheers
> Julie
>

Thank you kindly list.

-- 
Cheers

- zeal