Unpopular opinion: commas *should* go outside the quotation marks. They are logically part of the outer sentence, not part of the quoted phrase. https://twitter.com/alissamarie/status/1334687419162107904 …
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That's not an unpopular opinion in England. That's the convention here.
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In other words, England is off the hook.
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Full disclosure: this is about as wild as it gets.
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I do it despite being American. The British punctuation conventions are generally superior to and more logical than the American, and I would adopt them all if it didn't leave me exposed to charges of pretentiousness and Anglophilia.
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I use “an” before the aspirated H in professional writing [1] because it’s objectively superior and [2] as a shibboleth to signal my fellow pretentious Anglophiles.
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When I was growing up in England in the 80s I was taught to put the commas _inside_ the quotes. It annoyed me greatly at the time and I'm happy not to have to do it any more.
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I was taught (around the same time quite early in schooling) that they only go inside the quotation if it's part of the quotation's own punctuation and you're continuing their sentence after (v)
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Periods (full stops) too.
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English comes from England therefore England's rules should apply
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Time to move to England.
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