How to correct a misattributed quotation: four ways to repair it, what an erratum must state, updating graphics and social posts, and publishing unresolved checks.
Quote context and sources by profession: how journalism, law, academia, medicine, public relations and politics each check one quotation before it is indexed.
Sets four often misquoted Canadian song lyrics by Tom Cochrane, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Corey Hart beside the official lines, with a way to check.
Humorous quotes context: keep the setup, target, and source; drop irrelevant material. Monty Python and George Carlin show how a line changes when isolated.
Inspirational quotes need a search for the oldest appearance, not the best one. Building queries, choosing corpora, and what a null result actually licenses.
Life quotes misquotes can be screened for anachronisms using word age, sense age, concept age, metaphor age, and register age, with translation limits.
A ranked shortlist of the archives, style guides and search tools that trace a quotation from a printed page back to the person credited with saying it.
Leadership quotes get used as borrowed authority in meetings. Why credit drifts uphill, which official records can settle it, and a ten-minute standard.