Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/07

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Subject: [Leica] Good Writing is Harder Than Good Photography
From: tim at KairosPhoto.com (Timothy Atherton)
Date: Tue Jun 7 10:29:47 2005
 
> I have read that, at least in the USA, it is permissible, even
> conventional,
> to omit the comma before the 'and' in the listing of names in the
> title of a
> firm (e.g., Hart, Schaffner and Marx).
>
> Julian

In Grammar School English classes I was always taught there is no comma
before the  "and" in such a listing (along with there is no "firstly",
rather first, secondly, thirdly...)

tim
In reply to: Message from jkoplen at mindspring.com (Julian Koplen) ([Leica] Good Writing is Harder Than Good Photography)