Grammar, Commas, and You

—By Kevin Drum

| Thu Mar. 4, 2010 10:29 AM PST

Today is, apparently, National Grammar Day. James Joyner, in the course of musing on changes over his lifetime, says:

I never know where to put a comma anymore. We’ve certainly become much stingier in their use in recent years. The trailing comma in lists, for example, is gone.

Not on this blog, pal! I'll use the Oxford comma til the day I die. Never let The Man take away your commas.

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