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Latest post Fri, Jul 3 2009 8:25 AM by Mister Micawber. 1 replies.
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Anonymous  +  803953 Fri, 03 Jul 09 05:47 AM

I'm editing my own book and am confused about the use of single vs. double quotation marks when emphsizing or highlighting a term, not in a quote.  It sounds like the English would use single quotation marks, newspapers would use single qutotation marks, and some technical writing would as well.  But the US way would be to really just use double or regular quotation marks -

for example :

  Any little intuitive "knowing" who's on the other end of the phone before you answer or books "falling out" on you in libraries.....


Is the regular quotation mark appropriate or the single quotation mark?

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Mister Micawber  +  804128 Fri, 03 Jul 09 08:25 AM
The safer choice is double quotation marks; some publishers use single ones.  The style guides vary somewhat.  Check with your publisher on all matters of punctuation, italics, citations, etc.
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