Re: Which Makes Most Sense?

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From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:34

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Barb Knox wrote:
> In article <1166200279.810244.244340@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>,
>  "Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Flying Tortoise wrote:
> [snip]
> > And what do you do to show that you're quoting a quote?  Like, use
> > "double" quotations marks (use them twice)?
>
> One British convention (Oxford, IIRC) used single-quotes for the
> outermost quotation, double-quotes for a quoted quotation, triple-quotes
> for the next level, etc.
>
> E.g., 'I told him, ''Never say '''Bugger!''' in polite company.'' '

Now that, I have never seen!

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Subject: Re: Which Makes Most Sense?
Date: 20 Dec 2006 19:34:01 -0800
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