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Should the full stop be inside or outside the inverted commas?

 
 
Reply Thu 18 Aug, 2016 10:32 pm
In real life we'd probably say "I met a girl from Canada yesterday".
In real life we'd probably say "I met a girl from Canada yesterday."

In British English, should the full stop be inside or outside the inverted commas?

Thanks.
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roger
 
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Reply Thu 18 Aug, 2016 10:38 pm
@tanguatlay,
Sorry for not knowing British, but in the US it goes inside the quotation marks.

I've been told this many times, but since it seems wrong to me, I place it at the end, just as you did in your example.
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contrex
 
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Reply Thu 18 Aug, 2016 11:26 pm
In British English, outside.
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Fri 19 Aug, 2016 11:04 am
@tanguatlay,
Here Tang inside
Incidentally can I call you Lay instead of Tang

Just kinda kiddin' Tang, unless you do in fact have some sorta reaction

Thanks for your patience with an old guy. You're to be congratulated for your intense interests
tanguatlay
 
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Reply Fri 19 Aug, 2016 11:11 am
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:


Thanks for your patience with an old guy. You're to be congratulated for your intense interests
Thank you.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Fri 19 Aug, 2016 01:18 pm
@tanguatlay,
Ur welcome Lay

God help them like me
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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Sat 20 Aug, 2016 07:14 am
I've never heard the term "inverted commas."

Those are quotation marks.
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Sat 20 Aug, 2016 08:03 am
@PUNKEY,
I use inverted commas on occasion for single words that I want to stand out in some way, and I use quotation marks for full out quotations. I'm not the only one who does this.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inverted_comma
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Sat 20 Aug, 2016 08:20 am
@ossobucotemp,
Adds, the inverted comma - also used as apostrophe - is on my keyboard on the same button as the quotation mark.
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contrex
 
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Reply Sat 20 Aug, 2016 08:29 am
@PUNKEY,
PUNKEY wrote:

I've never heard the term "inverted commas."

Those are quotation marks.

You are ignorant, lazy and arrogant. Ignorant because you haven't heard of inverted commas, lazy because you couldn't even be bother to Google the term, and arrogant because you assume that if you haven't heard of something it cannot exist.

Quote:
Quotation marks, also called quotes, quote marks, quotemarks, speech marks, inverted commas or talking marks, are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

Also Oxford Dictionaries, Cambridge English Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, and any number of grammar and style sources.

ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Sat 20 Aug, 2016 08:35 am
@contrex,
Somewhat different in North America as shown in my link above -

A "single quote", or ', similar to an inverted comma, is sometimes used in North America, especially when inside a passage that is already in the more usual "double quotes" quotation marks:

She said, "Yes, that would be 'fabulous', I'll see you then."
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