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 Message 4103 
 Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin 
 Re: Grammar in the Bar 
 09 May 24 14:32:48 
 
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Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:

AS>> (142)[Tom]  An Oxford comma hops, skips, and jumps into a bar.
AK> Tom's comma is probably also a yankee's comma. ;-) No
AK> comma in Oxford in the list before "and".

No, it is a genuine Oxford comma in mint condition, and I
use it in both English and Russian.  All the items of an
enumeration shall be separated by commas lest the reader
mistake the last two items for one combined.

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