Editing Comma (section)

===Differences between American and British usage in placement of commas and quotation marks===
{{See also|Quotation marks in English#Order of punctuation}}
The comma and the [[quotation mark]] can be paired in several ways.

In Great Britain and many other parts of the world, punctuation is usually placed within quotation marks only if it is part of what is being quoted or referred to:<ref name="APA">{{cite web |title=Punctuating around quotation marks |date=August 11, 2011 |series=APA Style Blog |publisher=[[American Psychological Association]] |url= https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html |first1=Chelsea |last1=Lee |access-date=12 September 2015 |archive-date=9 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201009062705/https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WilbersonChicago14">{{cite web |last=Wilbers |first=Stephen |title=Frequently Asked Questions concerning punctuation |type=web site |url= http://www.wilbers.com/FAQPunctuation.htm |access-date=10 September 2015 |archive-date=13 June 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180613040839/http://www.wilbers.com/FAQPunctuation.htm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!-- Staff writer(s); no by-line. --> |title=Scientific Style and Format: The CBE manual for authors, editors and publishers |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=9780521471541 |format=PDF |quote=In the British style ([[Oxford University Press|OUP]], 1983), all signs of punctuation used with words and quotation marks must be placed ''according to the sense''. |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PoFJ-OhE63UC&q=%22quotation+marks%22+%22according+to+sense%22+British&pg=PA180 |access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref>
* My mother gave me the nickname "Bobby Bobby Bob Bob Boy", which really made me angry.

In American English, the comma was commonly included inside a quotation mark:<ref name="APA" /><ref name="WilbersonChicago14" />
* My mother gave me the nickname "Bobby Bobby Bob Bob Boy," which really made me angry.

During the [[Second World War]], the British carried the comma over into abbreviations. Specifically, "Special Operations, Executive" was written "S.O.,E.".  Nowadays, even the [[full stop]]s are frequently discarded in British usage.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lovell |first=Stanley P. |year=1963 |title=Of Spies and Stratagems |publisher=[[Prentice Hall]] |asin=B000LBAQYS |location=[[Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey|Englewood Cliffs]], [[New Jersey|NJ]]}}</ref>