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
803-786-3706
From:
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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