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    Posted: 26 Feb 06 at 7:47am

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No worries...as most Cherub sailors tend to punctuate, spell and capitalise properly (notice no Oxford comma after "and") we don't really fit into

Oxford comma after "and"!!?  Where??

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BNS you let yourself down there...NO Oxford comma...
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Post Options Post Options   Quote hurricane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Feb 06 at 12:05pm

ok I was messing and to be fair I would like a go in a cherub!

it was only a mild poke at the churub boys/girls

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haha, well i feel well and truely 'poked' 

The 2006 cherub event list should be available online soon so get yourself down to one of them and I can assure you that there will be plenty of people about to take you out for a play!
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Iain C Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Feb 06 at 7:36pm
Originally posted by Black no sugar

Originally posted by Iain C

No worries...as most Cherub sailors tend to punctuate, spell and capitalise properly (notice no Oxford comma after "and") we don't really fit into

Oxford comma after "and"!!?  Where??



Hmmm, on second thoughts BNS has a point, I think it would have been an Oxford comma if it had been before and, not after it.

Anyway, on the basis that everyone will be looking through my posts witha fyne toofcomb loooking for speling mstakes I'll drop the hole thing now and blame larst nite's beeeeer.


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OK, I quite understand the grammer, but why is an incorrect comma before an "and" called an Oxford comma? Do you have a spy photo of the said comma?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Black no sugar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Feb 06 at 1:28pm

It's not an incorrect comma as such. When you list a number of 'things', you separate each one with a comma, except the penultimate one, which gets attached to the last one with "and". 
e.g. For her birthday, she wants winter gloves, a drysuit, a warm jacket and a Contender.

Now, if the list is too long or if the items listed are "complex" (like a composed noun), you might want to mark the pause after the penultimate (one before last) with a comma.
e.g. For her birthday, she wants winter gloves, a drysuit, a Contender with a Wavelength carbon tiller extension, and a warm jacket.

The comma placed between 'extension' and 'and' is an Oxford comma. It makes the sentence easier to understand but, in my view, shouldn't be overused. American journalists tend to use the Oxford comma quite freely, which is another reason why we shouldn't overdo it.

I'm off with my camera to find an Oxford comma in its natural habitat and bring back a photo for this forum. These creatures are rather shy, so I might be gone for a while.

If anyone knows why it's Oxford, rather than Cambridge or errr... Milton Keynes , please let us know, thx.   

 

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Rupert Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Feb 06 at 2:42pm

OK, so it is the correct use of the comma which is called the Oxford comma, not the incorrect use...I would imagine it was brought into common useage by some professor at Oxford, in that case.

Please, someone post an interesting boat development to take my mind off commas!

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Well you learn something new every day. 
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