Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:20:49 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 Message-ID: <20050225142049.524548d0@mobile.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <421F1941.4020301@freebsd.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050225121550.25686D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <421F1941.4020301@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:25:37 +0000 Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > I'm told this is actually a regionalism -- in American English, > > punctuation is always placed inside the quotation, but in British English, > > the preference is outside. > > To be more precise, the preference is "wherever makes logical sense". If > one is quoting a complete sentence, then it is acceptable to include the > terminating punctuation within the quotation. > > > At least, so I'm told, but it could be rumors > ^^^^^^ > and you seem to be missing a "u". :-) Heh, we cut Robert some slack since he's a recent move to the country. Well, you guys should cut slack, I'm still living in the US. :P -- Tom Rhodes
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