[Forum] RE: Series with two items and the Oxford comma

[quote='Pixna' pid='20733' dateline='1415198142'] It would depend on whether "and the movement driven by repulsive forces" is being used as a parenthetical or whether a pause is intended. Personally, I'd keep it as is. [/quote] I don't think that's parenthetical, but I don't have any intent of

[Forum] Replacing Oxford comma pedantry with semicolon pedantry

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[Forum] RE: Publishers' Note - location

Welcome to the forum wahab mirza! I don't know what Oxford has to say on this, but unless the note provides material that is essential reading before reading the book itself, I don't see any reason a publisher's note can't go at the end. Assuming I had the freedom to do so, I would simply place it

[Forum] RE: JFK, Stalin, and the Oxford comma all walked into a bar . . .

I've seen that before and love it! It proves the need for the Oxford comma (which I also love).

[Forum] RE: Is there a British book comparable to CMOS?

Most publications I've worked for have their own often extensive in-house style guides (The Economist comes to mind -- it's a good one; The Guardian also has its own style guide online), but if one is in doubt then it's worth looking at the Oxford Manual of Style, now apparently updated with Hart's

[Forum] Add Oxford comma to quoted phrase?

If the rest of a manuscript uses the Oxford comma, do I insert a comma into a quoted phrase (that lists a series of items) to make it align with the rest of the book? It seems inappropriate to do that, yet it also looks wrong to leave it. haha And if I do insert a comma, do I put brackets around it?

[Forum] Oxford comma

Is the Oxford comma needed in the following: "... was produced for some different purpose like regulation or taxation or accounting." In other words, should it read: "... was produced for some different purpose like regulation, or taxation, or accounting." (Note: the author prefers not le

[Forum] RE: Oxford comma

If there is a conjunction between each item you don't need any of the commas. Did you mean that the author prefers to leave the wording as is? I think you have a typo in there. Because a nicer way to do it would be [i]"... was produced for some different purpose like regulation, taxation, or ac

[Forum] RE: Comma after the date (year)

If you had followed the link I gave you and read that section, you would have found the example I referred to.  If you're in the online version of CMOS, it's quite easy to do a search, as long as you can think of a relevant keyword. So, you're not really using CMOS. The Oxford comma, or the se

[Forum] Neo-Pagan or neopagan or ??

Greetings! My author is using "neo-pagan" in a sentence. As I checked to confirm how this should be written, I came up with varied answers. CMOS 8.78 doesn't cite this example, and similar ones are sometimes in caps and sometimes not. Oxford Dictionary online has it as "neopaganism" -- no hyph