Re: USAGE: -i/yse vs -i/yze in England (and what the heck, NZ too).
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 15:05 |
Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:
> Why put punctuation marks within a quote when they don't belong there?
The American tradition is the conservative one in this case, and the
reason is typographical aesthetics: a full stop standing outside quotation
marks looks odd separated from its word.
But I agree that logic trumps typography here, and always use the
Commonwealth style myself.
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