Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million Image Oakhurst Dairy trucks at the family-owned, independent dairy in Portland, Me. Credit Pat Wellenbach/Associated PressEnding a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law. The dairy company in Portland, Me., agreed to pay $5 million to the drivers, according to court documents filed on Thursday. (In most cases, The Times stylebook discourages the serial comma, often called the Oxford comma because it was traditionally used by the Oxford University Press.) So now we get to replace Oxford comma pedantry with semicolon pedantry.

Source: New York Times February 09, 2018 17:53 UTC