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echo: barktopus
to: Tony Williams
from: Don Hills
date: 2005-12-19 13:42:38
subject: Re: 1 in 20 adults in USA illiterate

From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , Tony Williams
 wrote:
>
>I had an English teacher who made the whole class chant "'I', 'T',
>apostrophe, 'S' always means 'it is'", for about five minutes.
>
>A five minute lesson and the rule was learned for life, but I'm not at
>all sure how to handle the quoting in the preceding sentence.

Accepted UK usage is as you have done it - single quotes where quoting is
required inside double quotes.

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