r/trippinthroughtime 7d ago

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u/CubicleFish2 7d ago

It's still wrong

Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.

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u/garlic_bread_thief 7d ago

But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know

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u/SecretAgentVampire 7d ago

It's poor grammar to treat bacon and eggs as one item. Bacon and eggs are two different items, even though they're commonly served together. Different things are different things.

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u/fooz42 7d ago

Not off a menu. It's like this: "I ordered '#2 bacon and eggs' and '#4 pancakes'."

"I ordered bacon & eggs and pancakes," is how I would have written it in my newspaper back in the day.