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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:42, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Inverted comma

Diagram of a cast metal sort. a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.

Yes, it should have read "the opening quote mark", not closing. And it actually refers to a real, physical, thing: the printer took a comma sort and turned it upside-down.

I suspect, but I don't know for sure, that the closing single quote was just a regular apostrophe 'sort' because printers would use many of those anyway.

Welcome again to Wikipedia. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:42, 11 January 2024 (UTC)