# Amateur Grammar Authorities

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> [@Argent\_Towers](#):
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> [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reverend) on the style “The Reverend”.

Are you American? If so, periods inside the quotation marks, correct?

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