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Originally Posted by meme
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.
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As I recall from English class a long time ago. The period and comma would look like they are separated by a space if you put them after the quote mark. There purpose would thus be lost on the reader as it would look like the period was just hanging out there in space. This is particularly true of typewriters that had monospaced fonts. The reasoning was related to business letter writing on a typewriter.