It was as if one million grammar teachers cried out at once...

[jadedmusings]

Oxford Comma Dropped By University of Oxford

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

The University of Oxford Writing and Style Guide has decided that writers should, “as a general rule,” avoid using the Oxford comma.

Well, as an aspiring writer (I can hear you giggling) I say to the Oxford comma that I'm never going to give you up, I'm never going to let you down, and I'll never run around and desert you. Or, as I said on Twitter:

You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and stiff fingers!