Nemeaux (1/3/2013)
Although the overall technical correctness of this article is good there is a glaring error in the narrative. There is no such thing as a "single quote" mark. There is an apostrophe mark and there is a quotation mark. A single quote looks thusly " and a double quote looks this way "". What the article’s author refers to as a "single quote" is in reality an apostrophe mark ' and what is referred to as a "double quote" is actually a quotation mark.I bring this up because the difference is really quite significant. Calling an apostrophe a "single quote" is, putting it simply, quite wrong. It would be like calling a “V” a single “W” and calling a “W” a “double W”.
When looking up "quotation marks" in the Oxford Online Dictionary, http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/punctuation, I see no punctuation mark labeled as "single quote". Nor is there a mention of a "double quote".
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Thanks for the soapbox.
Actually I appreciate the feedback. One of my biggest problems with writing, be it a blog entry, a QotD or an article like this one is that I have a tendency to use "common usage" phrases. I forget that these can be very difficult for someone who isn't fluent in English or for that matter learned it using different idioms than I'm used to.
In my own defense though you will find them described as single and double quotation marks in BOL. I checked when I was writing the article :cool:.
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