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Dudley | 12:41 Thu 17th Feb 2005 | Site Suggestions
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Why do so many contributors use &Quot instead of inverted commas? Surely they are much easier to use and look better? You don't see newspapers using this form of punctuation.
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The Guardian - a national daily newspaper - uses double quote marks in place of single ones.
14:52 Thu 17th Feb 2005
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I believe double quotes is really correct, we have just got lazy over the years. 
15:45 Thu 17th Feb 2005
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Well we have to blame it on someone!
16:03 Thu 17th Feb 2005
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On checking back I have used inverted commas in both questions and answers and they have come out OK. So have others. Does it depend on the sender's editor program perhaps?
16:09 Thu 17th Feb 2005

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