Phew.
There were some alarums [olde spelling] that the Oxford University Press was axing the Oxford comma.
Not so, apparently, as noted in this excellent piece in the Los Angeles Times, which also discusses the Shatner comma, comically.
No serial comma killing this time, though all offices of said staid educational institution should be consistent on such matters.
Serial Comma Commandos of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your [something something; failed to make Marxist pun here].
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