> >Blame it on our fellow Americans for using an >illogical system for quoting people. The British >version works just fine.
>
> What's the British version? It's different? Maybe everybody else in the world knows that, but I'm curious.
>
> Vida

It was news to me too, Vida. At one time, I taught English, but I have never been one to rigidly follow rules. I use expressions like "ain't" and "I reckon," and I tend to use the salt and pepper method of placing commas in sentences. I have Microsoft Word for word processing and I think I drive it crazy. After I type a page it is covered with those little colorful, squiggly lines.

But back to my sentence where I put the question mark outside the quotes -- That was the only way I could make it sound the way I intended for it to sound.
Howard