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Old 12-07-2011, 03:55 PM   #29
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Jellby: To confirm, in US, at least, even in literal quoting, it is punctuation marks inside the ". ;-) This is ONLY TRUE for periods and commas, though, which I should have remembered to state last night. This is not true for colons, semi-colons, question marks and Exclamation marks. Colons and semi-colons go OUTSIDE the quotation marks; question marks and exclamation marks go outside if not part of the original quotation, and inside if they were.

Yeah, I know, English--great, ain't it?

Um...cybmole, Purdue has an EXCELLENT reference site, particularly for anyone working in EASL, if that is your case. Very clear, detailed itemization...let me see if I can find the link. Here's a page (you can find your way about easily from here: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/1/ )

...and, for those of you authoring as well as converting, please, please, please, please: kill the 4-dot ellipsis. It does NOT exist. It's a pet peeve of mine (okay, not as bad as "irregardless," but, still).

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