[Ads-l] The NYT: comma > semi-colon

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

Does a list with semicolons as separators allow for an Oxford semicolon, after the penultimate entry and before the "and"?


> On Nov 5, 2016, at 8:39 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I'm with Ben on this one. If individual items in a series include commas
> (eg, city, state), semicolons are used as separators.
> 
> On Nov 5, 2016 6:37 PM, "Barretts Mail" <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 5 Nov 2016, at 15:22, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> it would have made it so that St. Louis is the state in which Chicago is
>>>> located.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't agree.
>> 
>> Okay, but that is standard usage.
>> 
>> As an easy-to-find starter, Caution-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma: <
>> Caution-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma:> "If the individual items of a list
>> are long, complex, affixed with description, or themselves contain commas,
>> semicolons may be preferred as separators, and the list may be introduced
>> with a colon."
>> 
>> BB
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