double quotes

American

plural noun

one set of double quotation marks (“ ”), as usually appear around quoted material.

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I have reconciled all of the mismatched single and double quotes with the images.

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Quotation marks in The Victim of Magical Delusion are shown as printed except when there is a mismatch between single and double quotes.

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Inconsistent use of single and double quotes around words and the placing of punctuation either within or external to quotes has been left as-is.

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Page 7: Double quotes inside double quotes in Hallam quotation replaced with single quotes.

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The representation of ditto marks in the calculation sections of Chapter VII by double quotes rather than double prime marks conforms to the original.

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