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Subject:Re: "xxx." or "xxx". From:"Bergerson, Carl A" <Carl -dot- Bergerson -at- UNISYS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:27:59 -0600
Please see Stan Kelly-Bootle's Devil's Advocate column in the May 1997
issue of Unix Review from which I quote:
"The shockingly un-Brit habit of misplacing certain punctuation symbols
inside the quotes arose from a Yankee typesetting trick that
strengthened the line of metal type but broke every rational syntactic
and semantic rule." (no problem in this case <g>)
If Stan's not on your regular reading list, you're missing a couple of
good chuckles a month.
Carl Bergerson
Mission Viejo
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carl -dot- bergerson -at- unisys -dot- com
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