I'm found at the start and end, I hold words tight but stay unseen. What am I?
Category: Wordplay · Difficulty: medium
Hint: Consider punctuation that encloses spoken or written text.
Answer
Quotation marks
Explanation
Quotation marks appear at the beginning and end of speech or text, yet they don't form part of the words themselves.
This is a medium wordplay riddle — a moderate challenge for most people. The answer is Quotation marks.
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