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."

Full piece at

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/bill-walsh-copy-editor-and-witty-authority-on-language-dies-at-55/2017/03/15/6bf9dea4-002e-11e7-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html

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