Simviation Forum - How do you spell "Canada"?

Jun 4^th, 2004 at 4:14pm

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Reply #1 - Jun 4^th, 2004 at 6:57pm

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Sounds like this guy has a stutter! Wink

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Reply #2 - Jun 4^th, 2004 at 7:07pm

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Canada is derived from the Huron-Iroquois word Kanata, which means village or settlement.

And the question mark goes inside the quotation marks.

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Reply #3 - Jun 4^th, 2004 at 10:14pm

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not if the question is the sentence, not the quotation.
For example:
Jim asked, "Who said that?"
Who said, "Shut up"?

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Reply #4 - Jun 4^th, 2004 at 11:51pm

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Quote:

not if the question is the sentence, not the quotation.
For example:
Jim asked, "Who said that?"
Who said, "Shut up"?

Maybe in Europe, I believe it's true in the UK;
but in North America, the punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks.
That is how I was taught, and that is how I will always write.

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Reply #5 - Jun 5^th, 2004 at 12:07am

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Newbie's gotcha Steve. Wink

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Reply #6 - Jun 5^th, 2004 at 12:11am

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Maybe in Europe, I believe it's true in the UK;
but in North America, the punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks.
That is how I was taught, and that is how I will always write.

You have a point. I suggest reading, for edification and entertainment, the pleasant book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves". It is all about punctuation, written by a Brit, but who does point out differences between "American" and "English", and comments as well on the punctuation inside or outside the quotation marks.

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Reply #7 - Jun 5^th, 2004 at 2:29pm

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Shut up

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Reply #8 - Jun 6^th, 2004 at 12:40am

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Punctuation is simply done wrong in North America.

For example:

Who said, "Who said that?"?

Alter the punctuation without altering the meaning...

Steve (Silver Fox) Daly

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Reply #9 - Jun 6^th, 2004 at 3:00am

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Quote:

Punctuation is simply done wrong in North America.

For example:

Who said, "Who said that?"?

Alter the punctuation without altering the meaning...

It's all about location. We Americans often think brit punctuation is screwy. Tongue

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Reply #10 - Jun 6^th, 2004 at 3:48am

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Simple guidline...

The language is called English.

They may not spell all that well over there, but they do know how to put a sentence together so that it makes sense.

Steve (Silver Fox) Daly

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Reply #11 - Jun 6^th, 2004 at 1:28pm

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Reply #12 - Jun 7^th, 2004 at 12:28am

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Yes we know that EVERYTHING we do is wrong. Tongue

This is why simv isn't my home forum... Undecided

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Reply #13 - Jun 7^th, 2004 at 12:35am

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I'm not sure if Steve & blackbird are the only American posting in this thread, but oh well. I don't know how we all got started on this. But for some reason Steve just put Quote:

And the question mark goes inside the quotation marks.

I don't know how that came about... All's I know, is, "We put the puncuation inside the quotes." Ya... And we like gallons instead of litres, (liters!) to measure. But our temperature system sucks for sure. Stupid Farenheit... hooray for celcius!

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Reply #14 - Jun 7^th, 2004 at 12:54am

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I'm not sure if Steve & blackbird are the only American posting in this thread, but oh well.

No, everyone else is just smart enough to remain neutral. Wink

Sometimes the puctuation goes inside, sometimes it goes outside.

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