In article <alpine.DEB.2.00.1201091001320.16313@localhost.localdomain>,
Steve Edwards <asterisk....@sedwards.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, A J Stiles wrote:
> 
> > Strict ANSI SQL specifies 'single speech marks' around values, and no 
> > reserved words in field names.
> 
> Is this a "UK'ism?"
> 
> I've never seen a 'quotation mark' (single or double) referred to as a 
> 'speech mark.'

It probably is, then, as I'm in the UK and it sounded normal to me!
Although personally I call them single-quotes and double-quotes.
When I was young they were often called "inverted commas" too.

Cheers
Tony
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