I've just been writing some notes on OU work and made a list without adding an Oxford comma, which made me happy. Any writers out there will know what I'm on about but basically it's where you add a comma after the penultimate item in a list. As in, Today I talked to Frank, Betty, and Derek (the alternative being Today I talked to Frank, Betty and Derek). It's a tiny little gripe but I find it really annoying and we had to do it for tech writing as part of our Style Guide. No more!
I'm really tired today and quite dirty too because I spent all afternoon trying to pull a ruddy great cable through a 100 metre pipe, with several bends in it. I also had to pick up my car from the garage after the clutch went last Friday (in the rain). At least it's going now, but I could really have done without that. The advantage of course is that I got to bike to work in the lovely sunshine yesterday and have another crack at The Big Hill, which remains undefeated. I got a bit further up than last time though. I've got loads of OU work at the moment too - loads to catch up on and an assignment by 18th April. Too much!!
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I had to write a paper recently using the Oxford comma. One good thing about the fact that I was forced to use Word to write it was that I could get it to check for all my Oxford commas.
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