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[spiral sage]

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[pulsar mountain]

No real difference except that the standard French azerty keyboard doesn't have « or » lol
So when typing on a French keyboard you just have to use " and "
Software like Word will automatically change the quotes to the French ones, but in writing you can see moth
And if you're putting a quote within a quote it can be handy to have both at your disposal

[mild wigeon]

That would be handy in English too 😅

[finite ingot]

English uses "double with 'single' inside"

Though it gets a bit annoying when one of the single quotes is at the beginning or end

Otherwise used the same way as « guillemets with "double" inside »

[mild wigeon]

English may be my native language but I was never good at it 😅

[woven sphinx]

American* English
British English is the other way around, preferring ‘single quotes for main quotes and “double quotes” for inside ones’ though that’s changing due to American influence

[pulsar mountain]

From what I've learned recently it's basically all Englishes except British English that use the double quotes outside and single quotes inside lol

[woven sphinx]

Australian English follows British usage

[pulsar mountain]

I wasn't just talking about Australian, but I saw a recent reddit post where an Australian literally said their usage was double on the outside

and I happen to be in VC with @real heath who's telling me that he uses double quotes as well (northern ireland, sorry doxx)

[real heath]

it's in my rôle dw

[woven sphinx]

To be fair, it is changing, but I wouldn’t say that all varieties but British English uses double outside, single inside.

https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conventions/punctuation/quotation-marks

https://www.digital.govt.nz/standards-and-guidance/design-and-ux/content-design-guidance/grammar-and-punctuation

[pulsar mountain]

Indeed, although I don't know how much I'd trust style guides for current usage

I think American influence has probably pushed most online stuff to the double-quotes standard

[woven sphinx]

Online, probably, but traditional and official stuff still goes with single outside/double inside though for media publications that’s going to depend more on which style guide the organisation is using