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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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I think it may also be an "old" way of doing things. Back on old manual typewriters the only way to type a "double quote" was to type the quote character twice. I actually learned this way when I took typing in High School. Using single quote was faster to type and saved time. Also, it used two less monospaced characters on the line.
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