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BUT ... don't forget that English English and American English use quotation marks differently! In American English, single marks are used primarily to set off a second item within a pair of double marks.

Dave



On 12/4/2015 10:09, toki wrote:
On 04/12/2015 11:45, Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote:

In Norwegian the double quotes are telling the reader that this is not a real turtle but something 
turtle-like.

The same grammatical construction also applies to English. (IOW, your
original double quotes were correct.)

jonathon




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