desoto_hia873: (Bookish Fred - cheesygirl)
desoto_hia873 ([personal profile] desoto_hia873) wrote2006-07-11 02:36 pm
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Punctuation Question

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.)

ETA: Answered!

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