Thread: Punctuation rules of thumb?
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Old 02-10-2020, 07:18 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
I'd like a plugin that did the reverse, to my eyes US usage of double quotes adds a lot of distracting ‘clutter’ -- along with superfluous attribution tags used by many contemporary writers.

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I guess it depends what you grew up with. But to my eyes, single quotes as the main quotes just looks wrong. The attribution tags don't bother me. They are easy to ignore.
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