speech marks

by Christian McNamee
24th July 2015

Right. i have been taught in school that "" are speech marks. why in novels do they use ' instead? is this just something to do with printing or am i doing it wrong?

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I'm interested in this thread. I've always wondered this too. I'm curious to see what everyone else says.

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Leighanna Morgan
24/07/2015

This is probably wrong, but I wondered the same before deciding it must be an american thing.

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