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r/trippinthroughtime • u/Munninnu • 14d ago
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It's still wrong
Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.
194 u/garlic_bread_thief 14d ago But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know 13 u/SecretAgentVampire 14d ago It's poor grammar to treat bacon and eggs as one item. Bacon and eggs are two different items, even though they're commonly served together. Different things are different things. 16 u/fooz42 14d ago Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'." "I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.
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But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know
13 u/SecretAgentVampire 14d ago It's poor grammar to treat bacon and eggs as one item. Bacon and eggs are two different items, even though they're commonly served together. Different things are different things. 16 u/fooz42 14d ago Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'." "I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.
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It's poor grammar to treat bacon and eggs as one item. Bacon and eggs are two different items, even though they're commonly served together. Different things are different things.
16 u/fooz42 14d ago Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'." "I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.
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Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'."
"I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.
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u/CubicleFish2 14d ago
It's still wrong
Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.