Okay. This one is starting to drive me a little bananas.
Bee eh en eh en eh ess.
(Sorry--couldn't help myself.)
(Actually, I could help myself and just didn't want to.)
Topic: single quotation mark versus double quotation mark.
When quoting, or putting a word in quotes, always use DOUBLE quotation marks.
Only when the quote is within a quote is the single quotation mark okay (unless the quote is an extract, which is not enclosed in quotes to begin with; a quote within an extract also gets double quotation marks).
Or a single quotation mark is correct if you are talking about a cultivar.
You write: She told me it was the 'truth.'
You're saying: truth is an organism of an agricultural or horticulural variety originating and persistent under cultivation. And if this is the case, truth should be capitalized.
'Truth.' Cultivar of champions.
Maybe if we change keyboards so that the "shift" keys make the quotation mark single, then the problem may not be as bad. And it may stop the disgusting overuse of misplaced apostrophes. (Yes--the Oakland Athletics jerseys should read "As." They should have thought of that before they abbreviated their name. Now they have to go out every game with a fragment on their shirts. I don't know how they live with the shame.)
The lesson: Use double quotation marks. Your odds are far better.
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