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  • Devil’s Advocate: In Defense Of The Oxford Comma

    Devil’s Advocate: In Defense Of The Oxford Comma

    Do you go to the store for “cupcakes, vanilla, and chocolate” or “cupcakes, vanilla and chocolate”? There’s a long-running debate over whether it’s proper to include that last comma in a list. Lifehacker’s policy is to eschew it, but we have to admit that the so-called ‘Oxford comma’ does makes things clearer on occasion –…