Grammar Surprise

I posted on my Goodreads yesterday: “Moving to Britain. They have better punctuation rules.”

Let me elaborate. I was helping my brother with his grammar lesson yesterday when I noticed a sentence that bothered me: Today we read the story “The Observing Judge.”

Why did the period come before the quotation marks?It looked totally wrong to me since in all my years of grammar study I’d never seen anything like it. Logically, the period belongs to the whole sentence–not to the title contained in i...