single quotes

plural noun

one pair of single quotation marks, written as (‘ ’) and used especially for a quotation within another quotation:
He said, “I told you to say ‘Open, sesame’ when you want to enter the mountain.”

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Page 7: Double quotes inside double quotes in Hallam quotation replaced with single quotes.

Page 111, changed double quotes to single quotes around "little wilful thorns."

Page 14: Double quotes inside double quotes amended to single quotes.

Page 224, Footnote 161: This edition used single quotes, where earlier editions used double quotes.

Double quotes were used in the first edition; single quotes in this edition.

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