The Case For and Against the Oxford Comma
5th July 2012
Many will wonder what the fuss was about. The answer concerns the clarity of a sentence. As Lynne Truss proved with her massive bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which was at heart about the accurate placement of commas and apostrophes, a lot of people care about such things. I’m one of them. To judge by the mail, many of this column’s readers are, too.