David Martin
Mar 19, 2021

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I’d say no and apparently so would Lynne Truss who is the author of “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” and is generally not a fan of the Oxford comma. All that’s needed here is the one comma to distinguish a panda which eats both shoots and leaves from one which eats and then shoots and then leaves.

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David Martin
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