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Hi, Ed!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

EV>  When I read Dallas's joke I thought about the phrase:
EV>  "Love your kids but belt them in the car."

         Oh... now there's a wonderful example of how confusing some
apparently short, simple words in English may be.  Just for starters, are we
being told we ought to beat up on our kids or just ensure their seat belts are
fastened?  :-Q


EV>  Hmmm, should I had put a period after the ending quote mark?

         AFAIK your punctuation there is correct in American & Canadian
English because you were apparently quoting an entire sentence.  Although I
may tend to do things a bit differently at times, I am a Canadian with ex-Brit
roots.  :-))




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