Well attestedIndirect, via a person or title
Oxford comma
noun · first attested 20th century
A university press's house style became a transatlantic identity badge.
The comma placed before and or or in a list of three or more items.
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- Relationship
- Indirect, via a person or title
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Oxford
- In English
Oxford comma
The mark is named for Oxford University Press, whose style rules have long required it, and the press in turn carries the name of the city. Most American guides demand the comma and most British ones outside Oxford drop it, which turned a printing convention into a small cultural marker.
United Kingdom
All 108 entries 107 more words from United Kingdom
badmintonThe sport is named for an English country house.BadmintoncheddarThe cheese is named for a gorge village, not a brand.CheddarsandwichThe meal is named for an earl. The earl is named for a town in Kent.SandwichpaisleyThe pattern is from Kashmir. The English name is a Scottish mill town.PaisleybedlamChaos is a worn-down pronunciation of Bethlehem.Bethlem HospitalrugbyThe game is named for the school that played it.RugbytweedThe cloth may be a river, or a misread word for twill.River TweedascotThe tie is named for a Berkshire racecourse.Ascot