The Oxford Comma

To use it, or not to use it, that is the question?

Joshua Hehe
Nov 3 · 3 min read

The Oxford (serial) comma is a controversial piece of optional punctuation that can be used after the penultimate item in a list of three or more items, directly before a coordinating conjunction (and, or, nor). For example, a list of three countries might be punctuated either as “France, Italy, and Spain” (with the serial comma) or as “France, Italy…

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