Happy (belated) birthday so sandy_s! My brain has not yet recovered from the weekend's excitement at TT20, so I'm not very with-it this week. Hope you had a wonderful day!
The American style of punctuation puts pretty much all punctuation inside quotation marks. I know there are occasional exceptions, though. Where would you put the colon in this example?
He wrote "to all those worthy women who have any desire to live in Newfoundland, specially to the modest and discreet gentlewoman Mistress Mason wife to Captaine Mason who lived there divers yeeres": (Poem text begins here.)
Well, it's taken me a few days to get around to reporting on Toronto Trek 20. It was great fun, but left me so tired that I could barely uncross my eyes yesterday. And today, of course, I'm back to the cod. But here, at last, I present ( Toronto Trek picspam. )