As a member of the anti-Oxford faction who holds The Associated Press Stylebook near and dear to his heart, I feel it is my duty to refute the claims made in the Collegian opinion from Feb. 26 titled ...

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DEAR RICHARD: The Oxford comma, also known as the serial comma, is the comma used before the conjunction in a list of three or more items. For example: “I like to eat apples, bananas, and oranges.” I ...

Yesterday, Mediabistro's GalleyCat ran a post that made it seem like Oxford University Press was dropping the use of its eponymous comma, also known as the serial comma. The story took off and became ...

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 ...

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, ...

That was the subject line of an email the Associated Press Stylebook editors recently sent to subscribers. To anyone who’s been on the frontlines of the comma wars, the message seemed like an olive ...

When I first joined The Daily Illini, I was excited to take my first step into the world of journalism and writing. I was shocked, however, to find that my trusty friend the Oxford comma would not be ...

There isn’t much that leaves me gobsmacked. Chalk it up to nearly seven decades of observing my fellow humans, particularly the last decade or so — especially the last week or so — of the increasingly ...