Source: https://developers.google.com/style/formatting-words-as-words\n\n# Use italics to discuss terms



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introducing or discussing.\n\nFor more information about italics and other formatting, including HTML and
Markdown formatting for italics, see
Text-formatting summary.\n\n\n## New terms\n\nWhen you introduce a new term that you're defining immediately, use italics on
the first mention of the term. Don't use bold or quotation marks.\n\nRecommended: A
Clos network is a kind of multistage circuit switching network.\n\n\n## Words as words\n\nWhen you refer to a word, phrase, or letter in reference to the word, phrase,
or letter itself (sometimes called words as words) use italics. Don't use bold
or quotation marks.\n\nRecommended: Don't use
& (ampersand) as a conjunction. Use the word and instead.\n\nRecommended: To form a
possessive of a singular noun, add 's to the end of the word.\n