quotation marks and punctuation

ArtsyAmy · Sep 29, 2018

After researching, I'm still not sure about punctuation and quotation marks in the following sentences. (I'm American. I know my British writer pals have some different rules.) I want to not include the comma in these examples, but is that correct?

They called him "Loser." OR
They called him, "Loser." (I mean, back in school, that's what the mean kids referred to him as, instead of calling him by his real name.)

Also
Nobody was left to call him "Loser" again. OR
Nobody was left to call him, "Loser" again.

And
The box was labeled "Fragile." OR
The box was labeled, "Fragile."

Thanks for any help on this.

Maryn · Sep 29, 2018

No comma.

There, wasn't that easy?

ArtsyAmy · Sep 29, 2018

Very. Thanks!

Bufty · Sep 29, 2018

No comma in Britland either. :snoopy:

ArtsyAmy · Sep 29, 2018

Thank you!

Maryn · Sep 29, 2018

Does this mean you UK folks have stopped being mad at us for that Revolution thing?

Bufty · Sep 30, 2018

What Revolution thing? :Hug2:

Oh wait- maybe you mean when you started making your own booze? Yeah-no problem - you'll never make it as good as we can anyway. :snoopy:

Maryn · Sep 30, 2018

We concede you both single-malt scotch and Irish whiskey. But our bourbon is pretty damned good.

Fallen · Oct 1, 2018

Maryn said:
We concede you both single-malt scotch and Irish whiskey. But our bourbon is pretty damned good.

I love looking through Amazon.co.uk for whisky (erm, just the one bottle, on occasion, but Jameson's Black Barrel, though, lol), and the variants on spelling for whiskey v whisky always make me smile. Even on single malt, it can vary between the UK's whisky and US's whiskey.

Maryn · Oct 1, 2018

As it should, right? When I visit Canada--I live pretty close--I can handle the whiskey/whisky thing, and the word colour doesn't bother me a bit. But apparently I cannot adapt to jewellery.

Amy, I seem to have hijacked your thread with silliness. Feel free to jump in and be silly if you're in the mood.

Albedo · Oct 1, 2018

I thought jewellery and jewelry had shades of meaning, just like sewerage and sewage.

Maryn · Oct 1, 2018

I've not heard the word sewerage before. Do I want to know what it means and how it differs from sewage, or should we just not go there, it being lunchtime where I live?

In the Canadian cities I visit, the word jewellery seems interchangeable with the American jewelry, at least on the signs of stores that sell the stuff. I will note, however, that one time I ordered an individual pizza and it had cheddar cheese.

Maryn, horrified

DanielSTJ · Oct 6, 2018

I agree with the "no comma" idea.

quotation marks and punctuation

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