Another British-American difference is how we use single quotation marks and double quotation marks. The British use single quotation marks far more often than Americans. In America, we use double quotation marks in nearly all cases, and we use single quotation marks if we need to place a quotation within another quotation:
The defendant testified as follows: “I heard Sam say, ‘Hide the files from Delia.’ ”
From: How to Use Quotation Marks
On the mysteries of combining quotation marks with other punctuation marks.
By
Mignon Fogarty,
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