LONDON - A report that Oxford University had changed its comma rule left some punctuation obsessives alarmed, annoyed, and distraught. Passions subsided as the university said the news was imprecise, ...

I get asked every so often what all the hullabaloo is about the Oxford comma, also known as the serial or Harvard comma. I not only use it but am an adamant supporter. Why? First, let’s look at what ...

Vampire Weekend posed that question in the opening line of the song “Oxford Comma,” from their 2008 debut album. Eleven years later, everyone on the internet seems to give a fuck—many fucks, a ...

When you're writing or typing and begin to list items in consecutive order, do you add a comma prior to the conjunction before the final item? Or not? The inclusion of that final comma is a great ...

Peter H. Sutcliffe stood from his chair, nearly knocking it backward as he stumbled through the dark dining room toward the door, which opened to reveal a rather stalwart man in Edwardian dress. He ...

Grammar lovers today were saddened, shocked, and mightily displeased at the news that the P.R. department of the University of Oxford has decided to drop the comma for which it is so justly famed. As ...

Quite some time ago, my wife (Gina the Gorgeous) was introduced to the Pinterest website (you can also download a special Pinterest app to your smartphone or tablet). In the old days before computers, ...