Droll, very droll. But commas are no laughing matter to the Maine company Oakhurst Dairy or to the workers who sued it for unpaid overtime. Ten million dollars might now change hands because of a ...

“It was a typical Friday night at Costco in Corona. Customers, including an off-duty Los Angeles police officer, 32-year-old Kenneth French and his parents, waited in line for food samples.” How many ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, it seems, is a little obsessive about commas. According to press reports, he’s been sending out directives to staff that they should follow certain strict guidelines.

Do you like magic? Commas are the magicians of our language. They can transform the meaning of a sentence! My co-workers and I collect jokes about grammar. We have one that says, "Let's eat Grandma" ...

Forgetting to use a comma can change everything. It can transform an impatient parent (“I’d like to eat, children”) into a prospective cannibal (I’d like to eat children”). If you aren’t careful, an ...

ELON, North Carolina — My favorite bumper sticker I’ve never seen: Commas matter. So I’ve always thought, and do still believe with the passion of one whose knuckles were rapped for grammatical errors ...