Wednesday, April 13th, 2005, 5:57 am
Single and Double Quotes
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ach and every one of us writes and we all use quotes and apostrophes on occasions. Terrible it is to see how often they are chosen wrongly, or even worse, at random.
TECHWR-L provided me with a long-sought answer. It also revealed that I was using the British style without being aware of it. Statements require double quotes, scare quotes have a single. Have a read to get a short lesson in punctuation.
…I’d suggest British English generally uses double quotes for speech (“Let’s go to the beach,” Jane suggested) but single quotes for things like scare quotes (‘respected’ news sites)…
