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What is the smallest hill you would die on?
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Oxford Comma.
*Serial comma[^1]
[^1]: The even smaller hill I’ll die on.
My company has standardized document templates and none of them have Oxford commas. I will go through and add them any time I have to use one.
I reject, protest and censure your endorsement of the Oxford Comma.
Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million
To this day I use it and refuse any other option.
Are you for or against it? I mean, it does have it's uses.
For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That's when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.