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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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I did not know that, the logic of it makes sense though. I think I like the simplicity of this approach better than the American form. This approach seems to better preserve something of the context and intent of the quoted statement--including punctuation. My only challenge there is, at places where I have authored technical content as part of my job, the human editors and software tools we use will flag based on the American approach.
As usual, being a bit of an Anglophile, I tend to prefer the anglicized way of handling most things pertaining to the Mother Tongue. But I have to draw the line at things like "colour" and "realise." You will not be able to pry the American spellings of such words out of my cold dead fingers.
