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.
by Colin Dwyer
Mar 16, 2017
2 minutes
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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