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Re: [OM] A bit of a tease to start the week

Subject: Re: [OM] A bit of a tease to start the week
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:46:16 +0000
However, the position of the punctuation depends on the sense.  If the 
punctuation belongs to the quoted text, that's where it goes.  If it belongs to 
the sentence as a whole, it goes outside the quotation marks.

Chris

On 20 Nov 13, at 00:36, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm just a wee bit embarrassed to say that for the most part I have adopted 
> the English English practice of putting punctuation outside the quote marks 
> because it just looks cleaner. <g> But I will not give up my zees. You'll get 
> them when you pry them out of my cold dead word processor.

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