On 05/25/2012 04:03 AM, Alec McAllister wrote: > Fowler tackles this in the "Stops" section. > > He mentions two schools of thought, which he calls the conventional > and the logical, with the latter punctuating according to sense, i.e. > putting the stops outside the inverted commas except when they > actually form part of the quotation. > > The former appears to be more common in the USA and the latter in the > UK, although neither has ever been completely uniform in either > place. > > I was taught to punctuate according to sense during my education in > UK schools, during my Degree in English, during my training as an > English teacher and throughout my career as a teacher in the UK ... > so it has probably been completely superseded by whatever haphazard > punctuation (or lack of it) happens to be current on this week's most > fashionable chat-site. :-( > > Alec McAllister Leeds, UK
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