#2995: University Commas

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[A sentence is written in greyed-out text, with the commas in black and each labeled with an arrow.]

Please, buy, apples, mac, and, cheese, milk, and, bread,.

[The labels are as follows, in order from left to right:]

Harvard comma

Yale comma

Stanford comma

Columbia comma

Cambridge comma

Cornell comma

Oxford comma

Princeton comma

MIT comma

[Caption below the panel:]

The Oxford one is the most famous, but many major universities have their own comma.

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.


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