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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 384815" data-attributes="member: 63">I'm currently re-editing Natural 20 Press's Tournaments, Fairs, &amp; Taverns for its 2003 print release, and I'm noticing that all the parts written by Russell Morrissey and Peter Ball (a Brit and an Aussie) use a different style of comma-usage in sequences.For example, I would say: &quot;You see before you a troll, a gazebo, and a portable bathroom.&quot;They would say: &quot;You see before you a troll, a gazebo and a portable bathroom.&quot;Note that they use one less comma in a sequence than I do.&nbsp; I was taught that, in a series, you but a comma after each item in the series.&nbsp; I'm thinking that, maybe in British locales, they were taught to not use commas between the last two items in the series.&nbsp; I mean, it just seems wrong to me to say: &quot;In Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns you'll find several new games (including greased pig wrestling), revised rules for Bahly and a brand new festive location.&quot;Am I just making stuff up, or is this a legitimate difference in punctuation?&nbsp; Heck, can we even agree on whether it's Tournaments, Fairs, &amp; Taverns or Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns?&nbsp; To me, this is quite vexing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 384815, member: 63"] I'm currently re-editing Natural 20 Press's [u]Tournaments, Fairs, & Taverns[/u] for its 2003 print release, and I'm noticing that all the parts written by Russell Morrissey and Peter Ball (a Brit and an Aussie) use a different style of comma-usage in sequences. For example, I would say: "You see before you a troll, a gazebo, and a portable bathroom." They would say: "You see before you a troll, a gazebo and a portable bathroom." Note that they use one less comma in a sequence than I do. I was taught that, in a series, you but a comma after each item in the series. I'm thinking that, maybe in British locales, they were taught to not use commas between the last two items in the series. I mean, it just seems wrong to me to say: "In [u]Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns[/u] you'll find several new games (including greased pig wrestling), revised rules for Bahly and a brand new festive location." Am I just making stuff up, or is this a legitimate difference in punctuation? Heck, can we even agree on whether it's [u]Tournaments, Fairs, & Taverns[/u] or [u]Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns[/u]? To me, this is quite vexing. [/QUOTE]

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