With British typesetting, putting periods and commas outside doesn't look as
awkward because British writers usually use single quotation marks where we
use doubles (and vice versa).

 

Nancy L. Tuten, PhD

Professor of English

Director of the Writing-across-the-Curriculum Program

Columbia College

Columbia, South Carolina

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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Edgar Schuster
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:44 PM
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Subject: Re: Quotation Confusion

 

I believe you will find that American printers have been putting the
quotation marks OUTSIDE the period (and the comma) no matter what the quotes
are marking for many, many decades.  Check out books published in this
country.  British usage is different---I guess you could say more logical.
They do what we do with question marks and exclamation points.

Ed Schuster


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