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Old 27-Apr-2007, 03:18
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Default Re: punctuation

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Originally Posted by kohyoongliat View Post
Thanks, Harry.

The sign reads: "No Smoking".

In AmE, a colon is used after 'read'. Am I correct?

Thanks in advance.
I don't know just how relevant this is but I Googled both:

a sign reads:
a sign read,

And I got significantly more occurrences for : "a sign reads:"

I too would say, a sign reads: "No smoking."
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