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Originally Posted by timfrost
James, I think single quotes in the UK came in with the paperback. Around 60 years ago. That said, I was taught double quotes at school like you. Along with lots of other strange punctuations like 'Oxford-street'.
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Never seen Oxford-street, but I remembered after my post that we used to call quotation marks sixty-sixes and ninety-nines, so that we would remember which came first. Thus:
66Hello,99 he said.
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Originally Posted by timfrost
Lynne Truss wrote a great book on it all called 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves'.
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There was a good joke in Playboy on that theme.
