Question about English quotation mark rules and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

Letitia Bigelow: It's simply a difference in style. Just as there are differences in spelling between British English and American English, there are also differences in style. What Americans refer to as "quotation marks" in the UK are single rather than double and are known as 'inverted commas'. There are other small differences [what punctuation is and is not included inside the quotation marks], which you may also notice since apparently you possess a book published in Great Britain or somewhere that follows the British style....Show more

Ninfa Aronica: I would like to thank my first answerer who took the time to answer, but actually I believe you misunderstand me. The book was written with the American style of quotations rather than with the English style that I had expected and that is what I was inquiring about. But thank you for your time.

Toney Flaten: Both the British and American publishers took the manuscripts of Conan Doyle and published their own! corrected versions, and they both use your first example for quotation marks in the short stories; however, the four novels differ as you have it. There are now many versions of the published stories, so you may or may not find both depending on what you have.

Marita Stadick: She is in part dealing with the comparable consequnces authentic now additionally, via killing SIRIUS BLACK in 5th and DOUMBLEDORE interior the 6th e book yet whilst she killes harry interior the seventh one (because it rather is possibly to be) then she will have the skill to stand much greater humiliation then Doyle.it rather is bcoz, Doyle at that factor became only widespread in britain(offcourse now he's many times happening around the globe) yet rolling is at present time widespread in total international and he or she will have the skill to get adverse responses not in straightforward terms from britain yet from finished earth planet. yet i think of that she will have the skill to get of! f all his grievance bcoz she had already have been given a tra! ilor of grievance via killing sirius and doumbledore in his books & upto the time her next e book comes, she will have the skill to be thoroughly waiting for all critics . it is must additionally be many times happening that rolling has reached to her present state from a time whilst she became all on my own scuffling with for bread along with his young toddlers, dosen't have even money to purchase paper for writing & used to place in writing on previous newspapers, and replied in no via better than ten publishers to print her books. Even then she reached upto a place the place now she is greater wealthy than queen of england. So I (and desire u additionally) think of that she is an exceptionally stable female and in a position to recover from all her grievance if she kills harry in his next and final e book....Show more