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Oxford Comma.
To this day I use it and refuse any other option.
I reject, protest and censure your endorsement of the Oxford Comma.
Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.
Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million
My company has standardized document templates and none of them have Oxford commas. I will go through and add them any time I have to use one.
*Serial comma[^1]
[^1]: The even smaller hill I’ll die on.
TIL.
Are you for or against it? I mean, it does have it's uses.
For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That's when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.