MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's not my understanding from England. Could someone post > references, please?
It looks like my information is out of date and the UK is shifting towards the US usage. See, for example: http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=805701 Economist Style Guide, which says to use double quotes for quotations regardless, without noting any other practice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks Claims the old practice of double quotes in the US and single quotes in the UK. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/quotation_marks.html Notes the shift in UK usage. http://www.correctpunctuation.co.uk/punctuation-quotation.htm Recommends without elaboration double quotes for quotations and single quotes for definitions of terms, which is still not the same as US usage (which uses double quotes for both). I also checked my (dead-tree) copy of the Chicago Manual of Style, which says: Quoted words, phrases, and sentences run into text are enclosed in double quotation marks. [...] The practice in other English-speaking countries is often the reverse: single marks are used first, then double, and so on. There are exceptions listed for linguistic studies and, in technical writing about horticulture, for citing the horticultural cultivar. (The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
