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xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols (xkcd.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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