Reality Check by Dave Whamond for December 05, 2020

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    pschearer Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Also called the Hahvahd commer.

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    PleaseStay6PixelsAway  about 4 years ago

    Save your fingers:

    a comma used after the penultimate item in a list of three or more items, before ā€˜andā€™ or ā€˜orā€™ (e.g. an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect ).</I

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    backyardcowboy  about 4 years ago

    An Ox(ford)y-moron comma. Not to be confused with an Oxford Coma.

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    Andrew Sleeth  about 4 years ago

    Got to admit, on this one I prefer AP style.

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    Jeff0811  about 4 years ago

    I was hoping the final comment would illustrate the oxford commaā€¦He didnā€™t go to Oxford, fake British accent, and, He has never been outside of USA.

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    zeexenon  about 4 years ago

    Deformed sperm from Chernobyl?

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    Rayodeluz  about 4 years ago

    Using an Oxford comma can save you millions of dollars https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/02/08/oxford-comma-lawsuit/320944002/

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    Ubintold  about 4 years ago

    Comma, comma, comma chameleon. You come and go, you come and go.

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    Lee26 Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Loved the apostrophe comment.

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    DCBakerEsq  about 4 years ago

    Grammatical humor is always hilarious.

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    Rose Madder Premium Member about 4 years ago

    And the British do NOT use the Oxford comma. making some of their sentences read weird and having to be read more than once ā€“ to figure out who is grouped with whom.

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    Bill D. Kat Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I know the Brits invented the language but the Oxford comma is just plain ridiculousā€¦.. same for all those silly Uā€™s they add to wordsā€¦.. look this word up in your Oxford dictionary: REDUNDANT.

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    skyriderwest  about 4 years ago

    Also known as the comma that cost $20,000,000.

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    mpolo11 Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Yeah, heā€™s a big mouth.

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  about 4 years ago

    Kids write the darndest things ā€œIā€™m very thankful for my parents turkey and stuffing.ā€

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    ekke  about 4 years ago

    I find that offensive, inane, and dumb.

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    gammaguy  about 4 years ago

    Oh, put a shoe on it!

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    mistercatworks  about 4 years ago

    Could have worked one it. I though it was a joke about how they use ā€œsingle quotation marksā€ for quotations in the UK rather than ā€œdouble quotation marksā€ as in the USA. (Worse, they call them inverted commas.)

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