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> “You can have my double space when you pry it from my cold, dead hands,” Megan McArdle wrote Here's another typography rule that could go away imho: the com
by Aardwolf 9y ago
> “You can have my double space when you pry it from my cold, dead hands,” Megan McArdle wrote
Here's another typography rule that could go away imho: the comma obviously belongs outside of the quotes, not inside of it. Megan McArdle did not write that last comma so it belongs after the quote
Apparently the weird rule has something to do with metal pieces of printing presses in the 19th century. Well, we're 2018 now and printing presses can handle it outside of the quotes just fine.
UK does it fine apparently. Sometimes it seems as if the US actually prefers to use inconsistent things like date formats where the numbers are not ordered from biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest, length units with various differing multiplication factors or those commas inside of quotes here :p