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The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases

An appeals court dispute between a Maine dairy company and its delivery drivers came down to a single punctuation mark — or rather, the lack of it. Count it a win for the controversial comma.
The little mark at the heart of it all.

Surely, Oakhurst Dairy would have done well to heed the immortal words of the '80s hair band Cinderella: "Don't know what you got (till it's gone)."

The based in Portland, Maine, likely never appreciated the serial comma — also known as an Oxford comma — so much as it did Monday,

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