Patsy--I know why there are single quotation marks...the English (Brits) do it! Anthony Horowitz, of the Brit murder mysteries, is just one of the examples. I can live with it, but I cannot abide by the modern writers who do not use quotation marks at all! Drives me nuts. (The guy who wrote "Hologram of a King"--can not think of his name is just one of them...Bob