5 Jan
2002
5 Jan
'02
1:21 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, r. 'bear' stricklin
wrote:
I don't understand why putting the period to the left of the quotation
would be better than to the right... Please to explain...
Clint
Even the American English "rule" of
placing all punctuation inside
quotation marks is a _typographical convention_ that stems from the
early days of movable type, when the period and comma were the most
fragile pieces of type and were prone to breaking off in the press.