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Joe_F | BS: the Oxford comma (40) | RE: BS: the Oxford comma | 23 Jun 17 |
Joe O.: In my limited experience, "Oxford comma" is the usual academic jargon, whereas "Harvard comma" is what journalists call it -- usually with a sneer. Journalists, up to (say) the 1960s, were seldom college graduates, and "Harvard" connoted rich snob queer. |