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’“‘”’” means “I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it”

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      British English often uses single quotation marks to identify the outermost text of a primary quotation versus double quotation marks for inner, nested quotations.

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      Huh, just shows you how I was taught the British way many years ago, but adopted the American way due to reading so many bloody books!

      • CodandChips @lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Old British person here, I was always taught double quotation marks for speech and single quotation marks for actually quoting something.