This Week's Inquirer: The Oxford Comma Debate Is Over

These over-precious pauses are divisive, distracting and unnecessary.

Last month, news broke that Thérèse Coffey, the new U.K. health secretary, had instructed staffers at the Department of Health and Social Care and the U.K. Health Security Agency that, if they’re communicating with her, they shouldn’t use Oxford commas.

In the words of an American: It’s about bloody time.

For those who may have unwittingly stumbled onto a grammar column, a brief primer: An Oxford comma is the comma that appears before the word and in a list of three or more things — the comma after white in “red, white, and blue.”

And they’re the downfall of society.

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