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I was unaware that American and British grammar, punctuation, etc. differed until I took some grammar test on the BBC and found out, among other things, they put the . outside the " ...

Over there:
He said, "Put the period outside the quotation marks".

Over here:
He said, "Put the period inside the quotation marks."

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Tue Oct 30th, 2007 at 03:03:48 PM EST
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The American version always disturbed me (because it's like in British-English in my other three languages).

One thing where I constantly change between US and British and can't memorise which is which is the s/z thing -- memorize/memorise etc.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Oct 30th, 2007 at 05:46:49 PM EST
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