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Subject:Editor Please.... From:"Miller, Lisa" <Lisa -dot- Miller -at- ANHEUSER-BUSCH -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:39:21 -0500
Is there an editor on board? I have a pet peeve, and I want to know if it is
based in fact or opinion.
I have often seen periods used outside of quotation marks as in the following
example:
The girl said "Arrrgh".
This has appeared so often that I am now questioning my own understanding of
puntuation rules which, as I recall, say that periods must be placed within the
quotation marks at the end of a sentence as in this example:
The girl said "Arrgh."
Pondering the greater questions of life in St. Louis...
Lisa Miller
Technical Writer
lisa -dot- miller -at- anheuser-busch -dot- com
