Being an old grey beard you probably know these... but for others:
> * Final punctuation within the quote at the end of sentence (Did you just say "what?") can be placed after the final quote if the quote is for a literal string (ie, The password is "123456".)
Prior to movable type printing presses, the British "logical quotation" system was the norm for English.
This changed, and is credited to american newspapers, because of movable type. I've heard different reasoning (from being less likely to break, or to looking cleaner), but both point to printers. Even the alternate name for this quotation style is "typesetters quotation." <== the period inside the quote to end that sentence!
Being a form of mass media, this meant that a lot of mass produced works now 'promoted' by proxy this typesetters quotation style.
> * Moving away from verbed nouns ("Google it") to multipart verbs ("search it up").
This is purely branding. In the US, if people say "Google it", it creates a synonym between "Google" and "Search", which hurts cases for Google in defending their brand... If it gets too weak, then you or I could make a "Google Booster" company, which focuses on improving search engine rankings in general -- not just Google, and with no direct business relation with Google
> * Final punctuation within the quote at the end of sentence (Did you just say "what?") can be placed after the final quote if the quote is for a literal string (ie, The password is "123456".)
Prior to movable type printing presses, the British "logical quotation" system was the norm for English.
This changed, and is credited to american newspapers, because of movable type. I've heard different reasoning (from being less likely to break, or to looking cleaner), but both point to printers. Even the alternate name for this quotation style is "typesetters quotation." <== the period inside the quote to end that sentence!
Being a form of mass media, this meant that a lot of mass produced works now 'promoted' by proxy this typesetters quotation style.
Source for some more info on the above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks_in_English
> * Moving away from verbed nouns ("Google it") to multipart verbs ("search it up").
This is purely branding. In the US, if people say "Google it", it creates a synonym between "Google" and "Search", which hurts cases for Google in defending their brand... If it gets too weak, then you or I could make a "Google Booster" company, which focuses on improving search engine rankings in general -- not just Google, and with no direct business relation with Google
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