While transferring text from a reviewer’s copy to my master for a recent project, I inserted the following temporary comment into my master:
And yes, I used the Oxford comma to preserve the integrity of George Washington, a seamstress and a pirate.
And there’s one comment I didn’t make in writing. I just voiced it.
DON’T PUT TWO SPACES AFTER PERIODS.
Temperamental writers are temperamental, after all.
