speech/quotation marks

[boobesque]

when i was in school we were taught to use speech marks " when someone speaks. in nearly every book that i have read recently quotation marks are used instead. is this due to perspective or is it fashionable for writers to make mistakes?

[sir.prize]

Hi. You raise a very good question. It can be answered in the most comprehensive manner by taking a look at this link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark