[duxuser] Re: single quotes and apostrophes
- From: "Terri Pannett" <pann1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:58:00 -0700
Dear Dale,
Well, I've seen many of them in U.S. braille. I didn't formally learn about
them, but I was and still am, a bookworm.
Basically, a single quote appears during a dialog when one person is talking
and quotes another person. An example of this would be: Billy said to his
brother, "Mom says, `come in immediately!` and she sure sounds mad!"
I could never figure out why quotes within quotes were called single quotes
and plain old quotation marks were called double quotes.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California
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