cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 25 12:25:40 GMT 2005


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". :-)

Colin Percival


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