 Non-verbal loans were marked on the edge.After the publication of Filelfo's edition, the quotation marks for literal quotations prevailed.During the seventeenth century this treatment became specific to quoted material, and it grew common, especially in Britain, to print quotation marks (now in the modern opening and closing forms) at the beginning and end of the quotation as well as in the margin; the French usage (see under Specific language features below) is a remnant of this.