There has been serious debate over if the Royal Mint should have used Oxford comma on it's Brexit 50 p piece and will this be boycotted by all literate people as there seems to only less the 3 million coin and are now selling for ten times the face value.. Subscribe to read | Financial Times
A storm in a teacup. I don't care one way or the other, and I'm fairly pedantic. Some people advocate it strongly, others don't. My MS Word corrects me when I use one, and that annoys me (thought there's probably a setting I can change). Serial comma - Wikipedia
Goodness. In my youth Oxford commas were often frowned upon. Now they seem to have become compulsory? My theory: Philip Pullman has a few of the Brexit coins squirelled away and is trying to up their value through controversy. Clever man, that!
There are only three types of people in the world: people who use Oxford commas, people who don't know what an Oxford comma is, and those who are wrong. The fact that I should have used semicolons rather than a comma, is irrelevant In other news, last night I went out for dinner with my friend Pete, a lawyer and a convicted art thief.
So there were four of you at dinner or is Pete all/some of the above? Getting back on topic, I thought that the Oxford comma was another name for the 'Glasgow Kiss' but as I had to summon the powers that be to clarify what I was looking for in the OP, then I realised @KateSydney's camp where it is simply wrong. Never seen it done that way and don't like it. You can't put a comma before "and".
Let's eat Grandma! Let's eat, Grandma! Commas Save Lives I love cooking, my dogs, and my family. I love cooking my dogs and my family. Use commas. Don't be a psycho.
Grammar is important so you know know the difference between: helping your uncle jack off a horse and; helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse.
Actually, I am a regular user of the Oxford comma. I just like it to be a discretionary thing. So many things aren't any more!
Walking in heavy showers yesterday I was perplexed by Mrs No Mates' comment to be careful walking on the footpath. "Watch the dog s#...", ie don't step in it whereas I took it as in the present tense of the verb and couldn't see the dog.
