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Feminists Discuss More Than Periods

By Bridget Crawford

We discuss commas, too.  

Readers, when listing items in a series, do you use the “serial comma,” aka the comma before the conjunction?  The Chicago Manual of Style says you should.  The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage says you should not.  

Consider these two sentences:

 ”The shirts come in blue, yellow, and green.” (Chicago rule)

vs.

“The shirts come in blue, yellow and green.” (New York Times rule.)

It seems that law review editors allow an author to follow either rule.  Which rule do you follow?  Click below to indicate your comma preferences.  Or use the comments to talk about periods.

-Bridget Crawford

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Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).