October 7, 2024

#2995: University Commas explain

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[A sentence is written in greyed-out text, with the commas in black and each labeled with an arrow.]

Please**,** buy**,** apples**,** mac**,** and**,** cheese**,** milk**,** and**,** bread**,**.

[The labels are as follows, in order from left to right:]

Harvard comma

Yale comma

Stanford comma

Columbia comma

Cambridge comma

Cornell comma

Oxford comma

Princeton comma

MIT comma

[Caption below the panel:]

The Oxford one is the most famous, but many major universities have their own comma.