Since Oxford comma and Maine court case has grammar, punctuation, and syntax in the air, here is an obit in the Washington Post's copy editor. Excerpt:
". . .copy editors are the often unheralded guardians of language and common sense. They are the front-line mud soldiers in an endless war against bad spelling, ill-considered sentence construction and factual errors."
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