I have finally realized that people's beliefs about serial commas are as fierce as people's thoughts on anchovies and reality shows. You either love them or hate them. No amount of arguing will ...
Last week, hundreds of thousands of people around the US were reading and sharing a story about punctuation. On March 13, an appeals court in Maine said a state overtime law came down to a missing ...
Maria Kari is a freelance writer and journalist currently based in Vancouver, BC. "Who gives a [insert expletive] about an Oxford comma," asked the Vampire Weekend boys in 2008, shocking many an ...
People who care about grammar love the serial comma, aka the Oxford or Harvard comma. They love it because they were instructed to use it in school, and they love it because it supposedly reduces ...
Grammar lovers today were saddened, shocked, and mightily displeased at the news that the P.R. department of the University of Oxford has decided to drop the comma for which it is so justly famed. As ...
Kyle Busch, R.I.P. Grab Your Financial Stake in America’s Decline While You Can ‘Glaciers Are More Than Human Beings’ ESG in the Data Center Abortion Pills Kill. Do We Care? Audio By Carbonatix At ...
There’s a cartoon about commas going around on the Internet. The first panel reads: “With the Oxford comma: We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin.” The illustration shows four people: two men, one ...
Serial commas made headlines a few weeks ago when a court decided that the absence of a serial comma made a law ambiguous. In this space last week, I begged to differ. But I didn’t have enough space ...
Who gives a [insert expletive] about an Oxford comma? By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers ...
I have finally realized that people's beliefs about serial commas are as fierce as people's thoughts on anchovies and reality shows. You either love them or hate them. No amount of arguing will ...