When you're writing or typing and begin to list items in consecutive order, do you add a comma prior to the conjunction before the final item? Or not? The inclusion of that final comma is a great ...

The Oxford comma is one of the linguistic devices that has always caused division and debate. Now, new Health Secretary Therese Coffey has come under fire after her office issued guidance telling ...

If you’re looking for a grammatical convention guaranteed to spark an unnecessarily outraged debate, look no further than the Oxford comma [Editor’s note: I don’t know that I’d call it unnecessary].

A New York Times story last month on the new head of Britain’s state run health care system telling employees to avoid using the Oxford comma caught the eye of reader Dan Worrells of Lake San Marcos.

In school, I was taught about conjunctions (e.g. or and and) and the role they play in sentence structure – they are linking words. They do what they say on the tin: con-(i.e. with) and -junction (i.e ...

When I first joined The Daily Illini, I was excited to take my first step into the world of journalism and writing. I was shocked, however, to find that my trusty friend the Oxford comma would not be ...

Quite some time ago, my wife (Gina the Gorgeous) was introduced to the Pinterest website (you can also download a special Pinterest app to your smartphone or tablet). In the old days before computers, ...

Someone has raised the subject of the Oxford comma again, because Sir Philip Pullman is on a tear that the new British Brexit 50p piece omits the final comma in “Peace, prosperity and friendship with ...