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Sun Dec-10-06 01:54 AM
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| 18. The British rule is that the punctuation goes on the outside of the quotation marks |
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and the American rule is the opposite.
These are the general rules for punctuation and quotation marks.
As I stated upthread Strunk & White's Elements of Style is a great reference for this.
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