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Oxford comma dispute is settled as Maine drivers get $5 million

Sometimes grammar pedants are annoying. Sometimes they’re worth $5 million.

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This week a university lecturer, Ken Smith, suggested that spelling “mistakes” should be accepted as variants. This has upset Ideas of Civilisation and Colin Campbell among others. I side with Ken Smith on this occasion though. I hate spelling mistakes and love to point them out. Only yesterday I saw a greengrocers’ apostrophe and instinctively […]