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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you mean a single quote instead of a double quote for speech? That is a not-uncommon thing to do. My printed "Complete works of Dickens" does it, for example - single quotes for speech, and double quotes for speech quoted within speech. It's just an alternate way of doing it.
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More precisely, it's the British way of doing it. It's not at all unusual for British books to have single-quotes for the main dialogue.