Thanks, everyone. According to The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style: With other punctuation Put commas and periods inside closing quotation marks; put colons and semicolons outside. Other punctuation, such as exclamation

Would you say "You're as slow as me?" or "You're as slow as I am?" I believe the poster is following the American convention for the use of quotes. I assume you'd agree that the first question mark is

I believe the poster is following the American convention for the use of quotes. I assume you'd agree that the first question mark is superfluous, but is the American convention really to put the final question mark inside the quotes? I

Your punctuation is wonky. You don't need question marks inside ... I believe the poster is following the American convention for the use of quotes. CJ

I've read or heard it several times. It never comes with a question mark nor expect an answer (or so it seems). But what does it mean? Does it mean, "Why do you even bother to ask? it's so obvious." or does it mean something

"American grammer". Why not put two full stops. "American grammer.". or Mix it up with a question mark and a full stop. "American grammer?". Yoong Liat wrote: AmE places the quotation marks outside. I think the

³I think she has pretty thoroughly ‹ and probably irretrievably ‹ proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States,² David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush who is now a conservative columnist, said in an

I'm not American, Bob. I'm British, Really. I had no idea. I honestly have forgotten, if I ever knew, if it's true. (So many posters, so little time) so I don't have to call "them" what you call "them", and you

While surfing Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves looking for something else, I noticed a gross blunder I had overlooked the first time through: On page xxiv she says American usage interestingly places all terminal punctuation inside

I'd agree that it's not logical. It's in accord with American punctuation style, which makes no attempt to be logical with respect to punctuation with quotation marks. I should have said that American punctuation style makes only a