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Old 11-23-2025, 05:13 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
One lovely example of an UK book being modified for a US audience involved a punctuation change that swapped all the single curly quotes for double curly quotes and vice versa. Sadly, the process was automated and you saw text such as I”m and she”s. Sadly, someone complained to Amazon and the book was corrected rather rapidly.
I used to think about changing the UK style single quotes. But because of all the other quotes I'm need to leave in place, it was too much hassle. So I gace up and just got used to the UK style.
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