From that day on, Sam imagined a font called . Every time he reached for quotation marks, he asked: Is this quote living alone inside another quote? If yes, he used the “Living Single Font” (single quotes). If not, he used double.
He never made the mistake again. In American English, single quotes are never the default. They only appear inside double quotes. So remember: double quotes for the main quote, single quotes for the “living single” inner quote. living single font