Pedantic Quiz

Colon Farrell

(His acting is ****e)

 

Colon Der.

 

You drain me.

 

I have that effect on people as I am so intense.

 

I know, I followed your career as the front man of The Stranglers.

 

Were they some sort of pop muzak stuff thang?

Not heard of them before.

 

^^^ Eats pot noodles for dinner on his own over the kitchen sink.

 

And Colon Firth or is that a bridge too far?

 

What are Pot Noodles?

Is that Cordon Bleu dining in the Central ****belt of Scotchland?

 

Colon Irrigation And The Hosepipes.

Great band.

 

One of the members of Chumbawamba is in a band called interrobang or maybe interrorbang so I had heard of it. 6/7, got the Oxford comma one wrong. "Last in a list", like: a,b,c,d, ? Could have phrased it better.

 

Go forth, Firth wisny in "A Bridge Too Far"

 

It's what you eat. Alone.

 

Oxford commas are not only used in lists

 

Never heard of them.

Do you eat them with your fingers whilst in front of the telly watching River ****ty?

 

Aye, never heard of them, says the lonely man

 

Correct, and they are used like this.


*To be honest, I thought the main reason was before the word, "and".

 

PS. Fancy a pint?

 

I know, it was the wording that threw me.

 

That's the most common usage, yes.

They're not proper English, however they are used (by preference) when it makes a sentence more semantically readable.

Proper:
The guys I hate are Monny, Mindy and Barrie.

Oxford:
The guys I hate are Monny, Mindy, and Barrie.

The Oxford reads better. The Proper reads like two groups (Monny) and (Mindy and Barrie) rather than the intended three.

And, as you have rightly noticed, Oxford commas crop up in natural sentences too, despite it not being Proper English.

Has anybody noticed that spellcheckers in some apps and applications are actually pushing Oxford commas? It's a ****in conspiracy