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« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2017, 10:53:22 PM »

There are people who don't use it?

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« Reply #26 on: November 15, 2017, 11:06:02 PM »

There are people who don't use it?

Journalists who write for the AP or NY Times are advised to avoid it. The same is true for UK writers for the Economist or the Times.

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« Reply #27 on: November 15, 2017, 11:11:32 PM »

100% of the time

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« Reply #28 on: November 15, 2017, 11:11:44 PM »

There are people who don't use it?

Journalists who write for the AP or NY Times are advised to avoid it. The same is true for UK writers for the Economist or the Times.

Because that superfluous comma doesn't exist in any other Western language.

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« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2017, 08:07:18 AM »

There are people who don't use it?

Journalists who write for the AP or NY Times are advised to avoid it. The same is true for UK writers for the Economist or the Times.

Because that superfluous comma doesn't exist in any other Western language.

One source I read traces it back to a dispute between Oxford (hence the name) and Cambridge (doesn't use it).

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