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		timknauf on May 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise of "Logical Punctuation". The British style would actually include the period/full stop in this case, since it's quoted speech and the quoted speech ends with a period.

RuadhanMc on May 13, 2011 [–]

Hence the "logical" bit. It's not logical to have the period or commas outside of the quote if the quote actually includes a period or comma.

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