Comments on: The serial (Oxford) comma http://www.slightlyaskew.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/the-serial-oxford-comma/ Nobody has ever given me a nickname, so you may as well call me Chris Waters. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:28:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: ChrisTheSoul http://www.slightlyaskew.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/the-serial-oxford-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-246 ChrisTheSoul Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:13:30 +0000 http://www.slightlyaskew.co.uk/index.php/2008/07/03/the-serial-oxford-comma/#comment-246 Not really, no. Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers understand a story without stumbling, and if putting a comma before and - or any other word - helps that gentle reader, make it happen. Not really, no.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers understand a story without stumbling, and if putting a comma before and - or any other word - helps that gentle reader, make it happen.

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