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That's interesting. I do it the British way when I write English (because it's the way we do it in my native language in my native country too). What's the rationale for enclosing the punctuation within the quotation marks? It's not part of the quote after all. What happens if the sentence is a question that ends with a quote? If the quote itself isn't a question, enclosing the question mark would interfere with its…
You know, I really don't know: it always looks strange and wrong to me. I can live with American fondness for the "Oxford comma" (enumerating "one, two, and three"), but that has some justification in terms of clarity (if the final item has an "and" in itself, like "ready salted, paprika, cheese and onion" crisps/chips). So "just because" seems most likely :-)
Re: De-Google-Ify Internet
#81I used to always put the full-stop (period) inside the quotes because I was brought up using that rule, but in modern writing it's considered more a matter of stylistic choice, because yes, sometimes it just looks, well, "wrong."