A report that Oxford University had changed its comma rule left some punctuation obsessives alarmed, annoyed, and distraught. Passions subsided as the university said the news was imprecise, incomplete and misleading.
Catch the difference between the two previous sentences? An "Oxford comma" was used before "and" in the first sentence, but is absent in the second, in accordance with the style used by The Associated Press.
Guides to correct style differ and the issue became heated on Twitter after reports of the Oxford comma's demise. But have no fear, comma-philes: the Oxford comma lives...
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01 July 2011
The Oxford comma lives!
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And another word on the topic from Brain Traffic:
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.braintraffic.com/2011/07/serial-killer-the-dissing-of-the-oxford-comma/
Love the video clip!