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Old 24-Nov-2006, 03:20
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Default Re: Quotation marks

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Originally Posted by Anglika View Post
Over the past 30 years, single quotes have been the more generally used form, but double are still used by some companies.
I think the keyboard has a lot to do with the trend towards the use of single quotes as it's a single keystroke.
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