 Should we include such phenomena in our theory of mixed quotation? The first sentence doesn’t contain a speech verb, while the second does, but the person to whom the mixed quotation is attributed isn’t the person who uttered the mixed quoted words. It’s unclear. Things get even more uncertain when we consider scare quotes (Predelli 2003a,b, Saka 2013, Gomez-Torrente 2017) and what are known euphemistically as grocers’ quotes: