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The Oxford comma goes by other names like the serial comma or even surprisingly the Harvard comma and it has a long history. It first was written in a style guide by the Oxford University Press in ...

The AP’s recent — yet tentative — admission of the Oxford comma’s necessity is a step in the right direction. Nevertheless, the style guide continues to hold onto a confusing set of backwards ...

For example: Jumbo is friendly, majestic, and extraordinarily large. Unless you are an Oxford comma fanatic, you probably haven’t noticed, but the Daily omits the Oxford comma (following the precedent ...

I used to think I would leave the copy department when I stopped using the Oxford comma in my daily life. Of all the specific style guide entries, that one was always my least favorite. And yet, the ...

The Associated Press style of writing is what most newspapers adhere to, including The Daily Illini. A large spiral-bound book details grammatical rules that a writer must follow to stay in line with ...

The guide provides guidance on a standardized style of writing, such as not using an Oxford Comma in AP’s case. The breach of the old AP Stylebook website took place between July 16 and July 22.

Two major grammar style guides differ on whether English writers should use the Oxford comma, also known as the serial comma, when listing three or more things. Some say it's optional or even ...

It's grammar time. In a debate that remains unsettled, the County Council voted to put a comma after the next-to-last item in a series, before the conjunction.

The Associated Press (AP) Stylebook does not traditionally use the Oxford comma, and since the AP Stylebook is sometimes referred to as the “Journalist’s Bible,” what it says goes.