I agree as well. Gets me in trouble occasionally. 

So, how long before those of us with sense can take over the American
writing community? Bwahahaha (to quote Sean).

Chuck Beck

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I agree wholeheartedly. I went back and forth about this with a
coworker. The American English rule of putting all punctuation inside
the quotation marks, even for lists of terms seems nutty to me.

c

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Subject: Re: [TCP] Article: Houston, We Have a Shuttle Typo

I use UK punctuation, particularly with quotes. Makes more sense to me.
I dunno, somehow this:

Can you believe he said "I think you're an idiot"?

makes more sense than:

Can you believe he said "I think you're an idiot?"

On 7/13/07, Sue Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, that's not that bad. Seriously. The sign was made with EN 
> spelling, even though the name of the shuttle honors the UK. Heck, I 
> misspell EN and UK stuff all the time (I dunno, but I always spell
behavior
> with a "u"  as in "behaviour").

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