Yeah, Phil, I believe it is the apostrophe.  You use quotation marks for the 
person who's speaking, and the apostrophe when they're quoting someone else.

Peggy
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:55 PM
Subject: Writing Question


> Does anybody know what you do if you are already quoting, that is, if you
> are writing what a person is saying, and in the middle of what your are
> writing what they are saying, they quote someone else?  Do you use the ' 
> as
> the quotations marks without the body of the speaking person or do you use
> some other punctuation?  I don't read Braille very often and when I read
> using my voice synthesizer, you don't often stop to look at such things.
> So, I was just curious if anybody knows the correct format?  I've seen the 
> '
> used for an inner usage of quoting but I've never know if this is correct 
> or
> not or if somebody just made it up.
>
> Phil.
>