Add me to the list of people with a version saved to hard drive. Excellent work, Ludens.
I do wonder why they don't teach this kind of practical information in the UK, considering that grammar is the basic structure of our language. Axeknight should count himself lucky, I never even got 'advanced work' like Jill's trip to the zoo. Grammar quite simply wasn't taught, nor was spelling.
I think that the single and double speechmarks may have started as an English/American preference as Ludens said, but now it is a matter of preference. I suspect it has been like this for a few decades. I prefer to use the double because the single speech mark is identical to the apostrophe and this can lead to confusion.
Your idea for a thread discussing the assorted technicalities of writing is a good one. It appears the interest is here.
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