A Song About the Oxford Comma

15Aug/122

A Song About the Oxford Comma

I like Vampire Weekend's stuff, like their early single A-Punk, but up until now I'd been completely unaware they wrote a song about the Oxford Comma (that take-it-or-leave-it punctuation rule without which “We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin” becomes “We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin.")

Anyway, I am oblivious to this awesome track no longer. And now neither are you! NSFW lyrics.

Tagged as: commas, Music, oxford comma, puncuation, Writing Leave a comment

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Dave Maciver

I'm a bit shocked actually, I learned what an Oxford comma was AFTER the song. Been using them for years though

Daveface

This was quite popular a while ago and I love it.

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