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21 October 2011

Does anyone know where I recently saw a funny drawing about the serial comma? I thought it was here, but searching for "serial comma" is not helping. The drawing had, I think, a man preening in an unexpected way.

post by: occhiblu at: 21:40 | 3 comments

This, probably.

posted by Miko 21 October | 21:42

(It really is the "serial comma," but people have taken to calling it the Oxford comma, which drives me nuts and confounds search terms).

posted by Miko 21 October | 21:43

Yes, that is it. Thank you!

And I learned it was called the "Harvard comma," so "Oxford comma" actually seemed less pretentious; learning it was also called the "serial comma" made my conversations about my grammar-quirk preferences much easier.

posted by occhiblu 21 October | 21:49

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