For Multilingual Writers: Quoting in American English

QUOTING IN AMERICAN ENGLISH

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American English and British English use opposite conventions for double and single quotation marks. Writers of British English use single quotation marks first and, if necessary, double quotation marks for quotations within quotations. If you have studied British English, be careful to follow the U.S. conventions for quotation marks: double quotation marks first and, if necessary, single quotation marks within double.