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Quotes within quotes

It was presented as a "substitute" for a previous motion to substitute the minority for the majority report (i. e. to strike out the majority proposal for "a brief summary of the reformed faith").

It was the baker's chance, and he took it. ... "I played 'The Heart Bowed Down' under his window, and he sent word for me to come and play it again in the kitchen. Ah, that is a good song, 'The Heart Bowed Down'!"


QUOTES WITHIN QUOTES

It often happens that a quoted word or phrase in the body of a much longer quotation must be distinguished by another series of quote-marks, as is shown in the example:

"If the physician sees you eat anything that is not good for -you, he says, 'It is poison!' If the divine sees you do anything that is hurtful to your soul, he says, 'It is damnable!'"

The interior quotation is usually made with one inverted comma and one closing apostrophe, and is known as a single quote. Some printers reverse the order, using the single quote for the long and the double quote for the short quotation. Drew does not object to this practice,[1] but it is not common in America.

A third series of quote-marks may be ordered by the author to appear within the second series

  1. Pens and Types, p. 119.