8.07.2023

Long live the serial comma!

"[A] real example from text about a documentary on the late Merle Haggard:
"Among those interviewed, were his two-ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall."

Merriam-Webster on style

 [The serial comma, also called the Oxford comma or the Harvard comma, is the comma before "and last item" in a series. With a serial comma, the example sentence above would read, of course:

"Among those interviewed, were his two-ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson, and Robert Duvall."

Whew.]

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