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Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 09.05.2024 11:32

 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 comma in
 AK>> Oxford in the list before "and".

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

What do they say in England? They say that in a list "and" is a substitute for
a comma.

Read for instance
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/comma/listing
and find commas before "and".

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2024

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