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echo: barktopus
to: Adam
from: Tony Williams
date: 2005-12-18 16:55:12
subject: Re: 1 in 20 adults in USA illiterate

From: Tony Williams 

Adam > wrote:
> Tony Williams wrote:
>>
>>I think that's just American English. I remember being taught to put the
>>full stop after the closing quote unless the entire sentence was quoted.
>>
>
> Dude...finally someone else with a grasp on that point.

I just seems logical to me.

> It's like 'es.

Gotta disagree with you there. That usage would have earned me a Saturday
morning detention.

--
Tony

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