Lederer has long been one of America's most popular experts on language and grammar, but here he seems to be taking his cue from Lynn Truss in focusing on the ins and outs of commas, semi-colons and ...

A few weeks ago, I mentioned in this space that serial commas, also called Oxford commas, are a matter of style. So either “red, white and blue” or “red, white, and blue” can be correct depending on ...

First it came for the commas which are commonly used to denote pauses and breaks in a sentence but are kind of hard to remember and find on the phone keyboard so what's the point right? And now it's ...

SOME British readers might wonder why a London-based publication uses double inverted commas like "these". And some American readers may wonder why commas and full stops (er, periods) sometimes appear ...

“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken,” wrote author Lynne Truss in her punctuation ...

To Oxford comma, or not to Oxford comma? That is the question which has been taxing the internet over the past 24 hours, after it emerged – erroneously, as it later turned out – that the Oxford comma ...

Writers frequently debate whether or not the Oxford comma is a necessary piece of punctuation. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In ...