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Originally Posted by pdurrant
' and " are marks from the age of typewriters (and plain ASCII) and are used both for quotation marks, and for foot and inch marks. They're called the apostrophe and the quotation mark.
But properly, quotation marks are like this: ‘ ’ and “ ”, and the marks for feet and inches are like this: ′ and ″ (prime and double prime).
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Which is what I thought! I wondered because the person I was replying to stated (") as feet and (') as inches.
Derek