Re: "xxx." or "xxx".

[JONESC <JONESC -at- DSTM -dot- COM>]

Punctuation outside quotation marks is a "Queen's English" stnd.  (I
think).

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> Five technical writers, one office, two opinions.   When a sentence
> ends with
> a word in quotation marks, do you put the punctuation (period or comma
> - we
> agree on the other punctuation marks) inside the quotation marks or
> outside
> the quotation marks?  The various guides that we checked all indicated
> that
> 1a and 2a (below) are correct, but some of the writers swear that they
> were
> taught to follow 1b and 2b.   What do you think?
>
> 1a.   "Tell me what you think," said Barb.
> 1b.   "Tell me what you think", said Barb.
>
> 2a.    Each fix is moved to the restricted area by a "gatekeeper."
> 2b.    Each fix is moved to the restricted area by a "gatekeeper".
>
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