> Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay? Apparently not, because the author has since corrected it. > the British use single quotes.[1] It's not that

> Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay? Apparently not, because the author has since corrected it. > the British use single quotes.[1] It's not that simple, because "the British" rather notoriously spread to many places. There are large ex-colony countries like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, where English is the primary language; and others where it's a major official language, like South Africa and India. When it comes to rules like the ones you mention, they tend to vary because of varying degrees of American vs. British influence, as well as local variation; and of course, this all changes over time. A better and more realistic treatment of the subject of punctuation in quotes can be found here: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm