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Subject:RE: Single vs. double quotes? From:"McCarter, Kim" <kmccarte -at- harris -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:21:07 -0400
Grail commented <<But then, I was told - by a woman from Alabama, so anyone who
wants to make Deep South jokes can have a field day now - that American English
writers place punctuation marks outside of the quotation marks (Let's go to the
beach", Jane suggested).>>
I taught English in America (Georgia) for 12 years and NEVER encountered that in
any text book - just student papers, where I marked it incorrect and deducted
punctuation points. Punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks.
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Technical Writer
Harris Publishing Systems
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