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Re: Items in a Series and Comma Use?

Subject: Re: Items in a Series and Comma Use?
From: "Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
To: beth -dot- agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:24:49 -0800

Ahhh... but there *is* that "Hayes and Harlington," in the middle. THAT'S the 'compound' station in the list. Langley and Slough are separate stops. But does the train not continue beyond Slough to Burnham, Taplow, Maidenhead, Twyford, and Reading? :-)

[see http://www.describe-online.com/br/paddingtonreading.htm where H&H are punctuated with the ampersand, not the word "and."]

--Guy

Beth Agnew wrote:

If one catches the "Paddington to Slough" at the beginning of the sentence, then you know it's Langley, then Slough. But we don't want readers to have to decipher, remember, or guess, so I'd be more likely to write "Langley, and finally Slough". That way, even if the writer forgets the comma, the meaning is clear.

Guy K. Haas wrote:
My bet is that there is a station named "Langley and Slough."

--Guy K. Haas
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley

Stuart Burnfield wrote:
**> A train travelling from London Paddington to Slough calls at Action Main
> Line, Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Hanwell, Southall, Hayes and Harlington,
> West Drayton, Iver, Langley and Slough. How many stops does it make?

Ten, counting the final stop at Slough.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with this example...

Stuart

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RE: Items in a Series and Comma Use?: From: Stuart Burnfield
Re: Items in a Series and Comma Use?: From: Guy K. Haas
Re: Items in a Series and Comma Use?: From: Beth Agnew

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