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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
In today's usage you are probably right but when I went to primary school (age 8-11) in the late 1950's it was the kind of punctuaion that my UK school taught. Any deviation from it and your marks were reduced.
We were told to use double quotation marks (single marks were never used) for book/film tiles and direct speech. If I wrote a passage today using the punctuation I was taught, it would be ludicrously over punctuated by today's standards.
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But this isn't direct speech, that's the whole point.