inch sign in title field

Should i use 'inch' instead?

[extra]

How is the inch sign " handled by search engines (like google) if it's in the title field?
Is it better to write the word 'inch', and what should I use in the body text?

[lexipixel]

I sometimes ask myself the same question about:

Percent Sign, ("%") v. the word "PERCENT"

Ampersand, ("&") v. the word "AND"

...slashes, colons, and other punctuation marks.

I did a quick test, a search on Google for: 9" Nails returns both:

Nine Inch Nails: Painful Convictions

nin.com [the official nine inch nails website]

Let's see some votes:

A. <title>Lose 10" of Belly Fat</title>
B. <title>Lose 10 Inches of Belly Fat</title>
C. <title>Lose 10&quot; of Belly Fat</title>
D. <title>Lose 10&#34; of Belly Fat</title>

Reasons for vote will get you extra points.

[lavazza]

&quot; = "
&Prime; = ″

E. <title>Lose 10&Prime; of Belly Fat</title>
F. <title>Lose 10&#8243; of Belly Fat</title>
G. <title>Lose 10&#x2033; of Belly Fat</title>

I vote for any of the " OR ″ versions in a title tag, simply cos it makes it more likely that the words 'of Belly Fat' will be visible in a tab

[lammert]

Although semantically " and 'inch' are the same (at least in some languages), many people prefer to read the word 'inch' rather than ". The same goes for values. 'Three webmasters are creating seven sites', is easier to read than '3 webmasters are creating 7 sites'.

Forget about the search engines, think about the visitors instead.

[piatkow]

I have also found that younger people are not always acquainted with the ' and " notations for feet and inches so best to write it out in my view.

[piatkow]

I have also found that younger people are not always acquainted with the ' and " notations for feet and inches so best to write it out in my view.

[ZydoSEO]

One might question why you want to display inches in your title tag. There may be a perfectly valid reason... but I reserve this valuable SEO HTML tag for a title containing the main 1, 2, or sometimes 3 keyword phrase(s) for which I want the page to rank with as few non-keywords as possible...

In other words, I'd question whether people would (in the example above) ever search for "10 inches of Belly Fat" or just "Belly Fat". I'd venture to say in most cases, they would not include any type of measurement in the their search phrase, unless on a dating site and searching for something like 36" x 24" x 36".

:)