Your syllabus will include a referral to The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks, won't it?

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

It's always so "funny"!

Tim

Oh! Pricey. I guess I will not be joining in. Ah, well; I have already agreed to disagree with you on placement of periods at the end of something in quotes. I hope you have the same feeling towards me rather than hatred.

Good morning John,

Following up on blogger mesns latest post re/ the correct use of the period (in his query, after a quotation), I'm always a little tentative about whether to add a second period at the end of a sentence when the last word is a short-form ending in a period, like say the "U.S.", or "etc."

To me it always looks a little odd w/ the double 'dots', and yet somehow seems intuitively incomplete without that added period.

What's the standard form in cases like this?

ALEX

P.S.: John, I really loved your use of the rarely seen word "shambling" in the opening sentence of an earlier post to describe your barely mobile state of ambulation one fine recent early morn. That word, for me, just conjures up the image of crumpled lassitude and minimal consciousness, par excellence. For some reason it brought to mind the phrase "lurching toward Armageddon", although working in the 'paragraph factory', at this juncture at any rate, hardly has such ominous, or apocalyptic indicators.

Always liked that comic Gary 'Shambling'. (Groan!)