#2995: University Commas
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[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.