Reality Check by Dave Whamond for December 05, 2020

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    pschearer Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Also called the Hahvahd commer.

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    PleaseStay6PixelsAway  over 3 years ago

    Save your fingers:

    a comma used after the penultimate item in a list of three or more items, before ‘and’ or ‘or’ (e.g. an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect ).</I

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    backyardcowboy  over 3 years ago

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

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    Andrew Sleeth  over 3 years ago

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

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    Jeff0811  over 3 years ago

    I was hoping the final comment would illustrate the oxford comma…He didn’t go to Oxford, fake British accent, and, He has never been outside of USA.

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    zeexenon  over 3 years ago

    Deformed sperm from Chernobyl?

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    Rayodeluz  over 3 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  over 3 years ago

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

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    Lee26 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Loved the apostrophe comment.

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

    Grammatical humor is always hilarious.

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    Rose Madder Premium Member over 3 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 – to figure out who is grouped with whom.

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    Bill D. Kat Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I know the Brits invented the language but the Oxford comma is just plain ridiculous….. same for all those silly U’s they add to words….. look this word up in your Oxford dictionary: REDUNDANT.

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    skyriderwest  over 3 years ago

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

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    mpolo11 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Yeah, he’s a big mouth.

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  over 3 years ago

    Kids write the darndest things “I’m very thankful for my parents turkey and stuffing.”

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    ekke  over 3 years ago

    I find that offensive, inane, and dumb.

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    gammaguy  over 3 years ago

    Oh, put a shoe on it!

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    mistercatworks  over 3 years ago

    Could have worked one it. I though it was a joke about how they use “single quotation marks” for quotations in the UK rather than “double quotation marks” as in the USA. (Worse, they call them inverted commas.)

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