cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Tom Rhodes wrote:

> > I think you mean ones ending in "/".  Ones ending in "/." are similarly
> > mishandled, but this is not noted.  The strange English rule for putting
> > "." in quotes is very confusing here.  I don't know the exact rule.
> 
> In my case, I was using the period to end the sentence, not to cover the
> "." entry in the file system.
> 
> With regards to English, I was always taught that you end a sentence
> with punctuation in quotes; however, this rule may be broken when
> confusion may occur.  This seems to be one of those cases and I double
> checked with my friend, Matt, who teaches college English courses.

I'm told this is actually a regionalism -- in American English,
punctuation is always placed inside the quotation, but in British English,
the preference is outside.  At least, so I'm told, but it could be rumors
:-).

Robert N M Watson