>
>> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
Yes, such as when you are quoting a complete sentence with end
punctuation. I received a number of comments years ago when using quotes
around the title of a referenced magazine article. The comments referred to
having the comma outside the ending quote rather than inside. Outside is the
correct usage.
Chris
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