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  • 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.