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Originally Posted by Hitch
IF you're interested:
In US-English, the comma goes inside the quote, even if the original quoted matter did not have the comma; in Brit/Can English, it goes outside.
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I just don't get that. I could never figure out why the comma would go inside the quote, especially since you mention colons, etc. don't go inside quotes. I wonder what the reasoning was behind this.