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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
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.
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Hmmm. I'm not I'd agree with you that it's the "British" way. The overwhelming majority of British books use double quotes for speech, and that the way that I was taught was the "normal" way too in a British school. Perhaps it was once a common British practice, which has since fallen out of favour? That might explain why authors like Dickens and old Agatha Christie books use it?