Attorneys deal with laws for a living. Bureaucrats work with regulations. Restaurateurs contend with heat, spice and the irregularity of natural ingredients. I work with words and, occasionally, ...

DEAR RICHARD: The Oxford comma, also known as the serial comma, is the comma used before the conjunction in a list of three or more items. For example: “I like to eat apples, bananas, and oranges.” I ...

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Oh sure, there are people who disagree with the serial comma—people who say it is optional or unnecessary. Well, those people are dirty Communists. Stalin never used the serial comma. Castro never ...