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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Because I’m about to write an exposition about what some people call the “Oxford comma.” I prefer to call it the “serial comma.” That is the comma which comes just before the conjunction in a list of ...

Someone has raised the subject of the Oxford comma again, because Sir Philip Pullman is on a tear that the new British Brexit 50p piece omits the final comma in “Peace, prosperity and friendship with ...

“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 ...