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A matter of style: what ever happened to quotation marks?

03 January 2019

Quotation marks – do they matter? I recently attended a meeting of writers where there was an animated discussion about quotation marks. Those little 6s and 9s that we used to call inverted commas in English classes. The debate was about when to use single  (‘N’) or double quotation marks (“N”) to signify that people… Read More A matter of style: what ever happened to quotation marks?

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