Re: "xxx." or "xxx".

Subject: Re: "xxx." or "xxx".
From: Buck & Tilly Buchanan <writer -at- WF -dot- NET>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 18:51:58 -0500

Joyce W. Blair wrote:
>
> I have been paying a lot more attention to hte books I read and i have seen both
> styles of punctuation inside and outside the quotations. So now I am really
> confused as to the correct variation.

Oh if only our language was/were (never could get that right either)
dead. My Chicago Manual of Style allows practically no variation from
"The end." But I've recently seen on this list that CMoS has changed
its/it's (to placate the Engineers) mind.
--


Buck Buchanan
writer -at- wf -dot- net
Sunset, TX

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