comma inside or out

"I will," he said, "follow up on it."
Punctuation is much the same in all forms of English, I believe.

wilpeterPunctuation is much the same in all forms of English, I believe.

Many speakers of BrE would punctuate it thus:

"I will", he said, "follow up on it".

We tend to place punctuation inside the quotation marks only if is relevant to the written form of the words actually spoken, as in:

"Will you", he asked,

trashmanIn BrEng, does the comma go inside or out of the quote after "I?"

Speaking of punctuation, your question mark should be placed outside the quotation marks (in both BrE and AmE).

fivejedjonWe tend to place punctuation inside the quotation marks only if is relevant to the written form of the words actually spoken

In practice, is this "logical" style much used in Britain in the kind of story-telling contexts where a pattern like "Blah blah," he said, ... would normally be found?

GPYIn practice, is this "logical" style much used in Britain in the kind of story-telling contexts where a pattern like "Blah blah," he said, ... would normally be found?

I'd write that as "Blah blah", he said. Huddleston and Pullum (2002.1755 make a case for the comma being inside the quotation marks: ... the quotation wou

fivejedjon[Quotation marks are] a matter on which there is a good deal of variation, firstly between AmE and BrE, and secondly, within BrE (and other non-American varieties), between different publishing houses.

My feeling, without having very many examples to hand to check, is that the "Blah blah", he said style is unusual or even virtually non-existen

GPYMy feeling, without having very many examples to hand to check, is that the "Blah blah", he said style is unusual or even virtually non-existent in published works of fiction in the UK

A quick check on a few books on my bookshelf suggests you are right. I really should not respond to questions about the punctuation of direct speech. My punctuation has rarel

Thanks all.