http://www.ox.ac.uk/branding_toolkit...nctuation.html
I just lost one of the major sources of my sense of smug superiority over IPU.
http://flavorwire.com/191499/univers...e-oxford-comma
This simply cannot be. I will never give up the Oxford comma. Ever. One of us still thinks this relationship means something.
The comma
As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’. But when a comma would assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity, it can be used – especially where one of the items in the list is already joined by ‘and’:
They had a choice between croissants, bacon and eggs, and muesli.
As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’. But when a comma would assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity, it can be used – especially where one of the items in the list is already joined by ‘and’:
They had a choice between croissants, bacon and eggs, and muesli.
http://flavorwire.com/191499/univers...e-oxford-comma
This simply cannot be. I will never give up the Oxford comma. Ever. One of us still thinks this relationship means something.
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