WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! Quotation marks are often misused, ‘amusingly’ December 23, 2019 at 1:36 a.m. by BERNADETTE KINLAW, SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE ...

In American English, the period or comma always falls inside the closing quotation mark, writes June Casagrande, while the placement of other marks depends on use. News. Sports. TimesOC.

But if quotation marks are there just to point out we’re talking about the word “fella,” folks argued, the period should come at the end of the sentence: Joe never uses the word “fella”.

If something appears between quotation marks, these people say, it ought to be the literal words of […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 64°F. Thursday, June 12th 2025 ...