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Old 03-14-2019, 03:20 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by maximus83 View Post
LOL, but now I wonder if we really want: The door was marked "Do Not Enter."
Only in American English. In Britain English the most common convention is that punctuation only goes inside quotation marks if it's part of what's being quoted.

E.g.

She said "Is it raining?"

But

Did she say "It is raining"?

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