In defense of Jo, I was also taught that quotes and inverted commas were the same thing and that the terms were interchangeable.

My problem is that I cannot remember what I used to call the single quote. As a printer, I must have used some descriptive term, but only single quote comes to mind.

Perhaps the use of both "single quote" and "apostrophe" is acceptable depending on context - ie where it is being used for a contraction or to denote possession it's called an apostrophe, but if it's being used to deliniate a quoted passage it's called a single quote.

Would this seem a reasonable approach?


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