I've always been baffled by that! But then, we also insist on "colour" and "honour", so it works either way. ;)
Joe
On 16 October 2015 at 15:59, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
I never knew!
The above examples also show that the American style places commas and periods inside the quotation marks, even if they are not in the original material. British style (more sensibly) places unquoted periods and commas outside the quotation marks.
In honor of Oscar's nationality, I'll put the period outside. : )
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org
wrote:
LGTM. If I were being nit-picky, in BritEng we'd write *...with other men".* but it doesn't really matter.
Joe
On 16 October 2015 at 14:59, Jeff Elder jelder@wikimedia.org wrote:
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