Here are some of the most common differences between British and American academic English. British English uses single quotation marks to indicate quotations or dialogue. The UWSC says, 'This is how ...

Why? Because that’s the rule in American English: a period or comma always comes before a closing quotation mark or single quotation mark. British English is different, and some influential ...

British English doesn’t follow it ... s demise because the online encyclopedia follows British style for quotation marks. Most of our friends, family and favorite bloggers make the mistake ...

(The usage of single, not double, quotation marks is common in British English, in which they’re called “inverted commas.” Brits put additional punctuation outside the quotes, too.) He’s startled to ...

Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation ... British practice. There may yet be hope of reconciliation. Of late, Britain’s contrarian speech marks ...

Gen Z Brits are turning their backs on British sandwich classics like ham ... Only one in 100 Gen Z would consider pairing ham with English mustard, compared to one in 10 of the baby boomer ...

For at least two centuries, it has been standard practice in the United States to place commas and periods inside of quotation marks ... will recognize as the British style—no further away ...

There are even more differences in how Americans and Brits punctuate: Brits place commas and periods outside of quotation marks while Americans place them inside. And, British English does not add ...

The library recently released over 55 hours of audio on their Web site that document the evolution of British English over the past 50 years.