Quote Originally Posted by Ludens
Everyone, thank you for your support, it is really appreciated. I now feel confident enough to try and have a go at a general punctuation guide. Though I can't promise to finish it before the holidays end .


Welcome back, Axeknight! You may well be right about this, it was just an observation affirmed by what I found on the internet: American authors used double quotation marks while British / Canadian writers generally chose for single ones. A check of my bookcase revealed the absence of any American author (except for the books of my university course, which frankly don't contain much in the way of dialogue), but the British ones always chose for single quotation marks. With the marked exception of a Jane Austen, that is.
Older books (books that were printed quite some time ago) all have double quotations. Publishers must have changed it for some reason