"It was a typical Friday night at Costco in Corona. Customers, including an off-duty Los Angeles police officer, 32-year-old Kenneth French and his parents, waited in line for food samples." How many ...

「オックスフォード・コンマ」という言葉をご存知だろうか。別名「シリアル・コンマ」とも呼ばれるこのコンマは、英語で3つ以上のものを羅列するときに、最後のアイテムの前のandやorの前につけるコンマのことだ。学生時代に学んだかたも多いのでは ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. You know it, and you love it or hate it—it’s the last comma in a simple series, the one before “and,” “but,” or ...

“It was a typical Friday night at Costco in Corona. Customers, including an off-duty Los Angeles police officer, 32-year-old Kenneth French and his parents, waited in line for food samples.” How many ...

Serial commas made headlines a few weeks ago when a court decided that the absence of a serial comma made a law ambiguous. In this space last week, I begged to differ. But I didn’t have enough space ...

I have spent my career navigating between literature and journalism, trying to learn from both worlds. From my training and experience as an English professor, I carried into the newsroom the power of ...

From Tuesday's decision in O'Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy (1st Cir.): For want of a comma, we have this case. It arises from a dispute between a Maine dairy company and its delivery drivers, and it ...

I have finally realized that people's beliefs about serial commas are as fierce as people's thoughts on anchovies and reality shows. You either love them or hate them. No amount of arguing will ...