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Originally Posted by Hugh Shuttleworth
Hmmmmmmm!!!! Don't get me started! I seem to remember being taught to use "Inverted Commas" to enclose speech; these days - may be a transatlantic thing, they seem to be called "Quote marks"! Have you just invented "a single inverted comma"? My journalist friend once wrote a column on the "aberrant apostrophe" in the regional newspaper.
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They were a pet hate of Keith Waterhouse too when he had a column in a national daily newspaper.
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