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Originally Posted by gmw
This style appears in both British and American texts. The comma in the above is not part of the quoted speech (if anything it should be a period), but that's not what happens in published novels.
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Thanks. It's always a good idea to check actual documents. I see the same thing in the book I have to hand here. (
Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman, published in the UK, 2002).
It does seem that replacing the full stop by a comma is what is often (always?) done.