Grammar lovers today were saddened, shocked, and mightily displeased at the news that the P.R. department of the University of Oxford has decided to drop the comma for which it is so justly famed. As ...

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An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link People who care about grammar love the serial comma, aka the Oxford or Harvard comma. They love it because they were instructed to use it in ...

There are a lot of incredibly easy ways to anger people who write for a living: plagiarize their work, create a website of links to their stuff and call it "The Huffington Post" or present them a pie ...

It’s great to see that Nate Silver’s 538 is finally hitting its stride. Stepping aside from the conflicts of politics and sports, the data site has decided to weigh in on a controversy that truly ...

Your theme song for this post: Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? Not Vampire Weekend and not the University of Oxford. Galleycat has reprinted a bit of their style guide: As a general rule, do ...

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There’s a cartoon about commas going around on the Internet. The first panel reads: “With the Oxford comma: We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin.” The illustration shows four people: two men, one ...

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Maria Kari is a freelance writer and journalist currently based in Vancouver, BC. "Who gives a [insert expletive] about an Oxford comma," asked the Vampire Weekend boys in 2008, shocking many an ...