Hi Max, Thanks for your thoughts on commas; I think I'll tell my 9th graders that they should use them after the last of the series, even though I had been taught otherwise. It might help make them the literate elite, which is probably what their parents expect from this private college-prep school! I started at Miami U. in 1969 and dropped out as a result of latent immaturity and the general feeling of those times; I ended up getting my A.B. at UC Berkeley 20 years later. I'm sure Oxford is still as pretty as I remember it. Carole