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Friday Fun Thread for August 4, 2023

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Surely the most common alternative is:

According to this, "Median household income in 2021 was $69,880. . . ."

That is what Turabian recommends, anyhow.

I think it has been noted by others (programmers who are used to dealing with "string" variables) that inserting punctuation at the end of a quote is a needlessly confusing practice.

According to this, "Median household income in 2021 was $69,880…".