University commas
From xkcd: “The Oxford one is the most famous, but many major universities have their own comma.”
Trump punctuation
“ ‘It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma,’ she added.”
Oxford comma wars
From Jack Shepherd’s On Words and Up Words : “Taking Stock of the Oxford Comma Wars.” Included: the real-life source for the Oxford-less formulation “my parents, Ayn Rand and God.”
Pence, comma
“You know I don’t think I have the authority to change the outcome”: and the absence of a comma has the authority to change everything.
Dialogue and the comma
At CMOS Shop Talk, Carol Sallers asked, “Is a Comma Needed to Introduce Dialogue?” And she answered, “Yes, at least sometimes.”
Coffey, comma, ay caramba
Who gives a darn about an Oxford comma, as The New York Times might ask? That would be Thérèse Coffey — Liz Truss ally, head of the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, and punctuation peever. Coffey hates the Oxford comma, is unashamed to say so, and wants it removed from her department’s written communications.
What commas don’t fix
There’s a mistaken clue in Evan Birnholz’s Washington Post Sunday crossword: 102-D, six letters, “What commas may fix.” The answer: RUNONS. But no number of commas can fix a run-on sentence.
Oxford and its comma
CMOS Shop Talk, from The Chicago Manual of Style, presents the history of the Oxford comma.
Goodnight commas
The title of Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon is without a vocative comma. The text, too, is comma-free.
“Peace, prosperity[,] and”
The ‘Brexit’ 50p coin is missing an Oxford comma.
Vocative comma, no comma
E.g., “Hey, Good Lookin’” and “Hey Joe.”
Stan Carey on the vocative comma
Editor and “swivel-chair linguist” Stan Carey explains the uses of the vocative comma.
New Yorker commas
Turning the pages of a January New Yorker, I noticed this tag at the end of a story: “Translated, from the Japanese, by Philip Gabriel.” Only The New Yorker, said I, would use commas there.
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Making up for a missing comma with eight semicolons.
An Oxford comma in the news
A decision in a Maine court case concerning overtime pay hinges on the absence of an Oxford comma.
Mary Norris on New Yorker style
“What if all these commas and hyphens and subtleties of usage prove to be the products of a benign delusion?”
Oxford Vampire comma revisited
“I’d seen there was this Facebook group at Columbia called Students for the Preservation of the Oxford Comma, and that was the first time I’d heard of an Oxford comma.”
Punctuation in the news
The Oxford comma and the exclamation point in the news
Twilight comma
An odd headline