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Oliver Lawrence
Oliver Lawrence  Identity Verified
Itálie
Local time: 08:20
italština -> angličtina
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No biggie Jul 1, 2011

Plenty of us dropped it a long time ago. As you observe, it's a matter of style and not of correctness, so one publisher's choice to deprecate it is no big deal.
 
Michael Wetzel
Michael Wetzel  Identity Verified
Německo
Local time: 08:20
němčina -> angličtina
Hoax, wildly misleading, or simply uninformed? No change to Oxford Comma. Jul 1, 2011

The story was suspicious in the first place and the web page in question was last altered in September 2009 (and the PDF version offered there has the same date).

The style guide is for university publications (internal and external) and has nothing to do with OUP style. The University of Oxford simply (and reasonably) states that its press releases, for example, should correspond to popular standard British usage (= French spelling of verbs [-ise], ommission of Oxford comma, etc.). ... See more
The story was suspicious in the first place and the web page in question was last altered in September 2009 (and the PDF version offered there has the same date).

The style guide is for university publications (internal and external) and has nothing to do with OUP style. The University of Oxford simply (and reasonably) states that its press releases, for example, should correspond to popular standard British usage (= French spelling of verbs [-ise], ommission of Oxford comma, etc.). This has nothing to do with the standards for academic texts by OUP.

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/dustup-on-twitter-over-revered-oxford-comma-punctuation-panic-eases-as-oxford-sticks-to-style/2011/06/30/AGmt5zrH_story.html

Sincerely,
Michael ▲ Collapse
 
Andreas Hild
Andreas Hild  Identity Verified
němčina -> angličtina
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Mistakenly reported that OUP had elected to put its beloved punctuation mark out to pasture Jul 6, 2011

Agree, per above comment by Michael.
FYI! http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jul/03/pass-notes-oxford-comma
 
Tina Vonhof (X)
Tina Vonhof (X)
Kanada
Local time: 00:20
nizozemština -> angličtina
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Glad to hear that Jul 6, 2011

I'm glad to hear that the Oxford comma is alive and well. I always use it in lists of items and often find it confusing when other don't use it.
 


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