Serial comma preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution" of certain goods were activities exempted from the general requirement of overtime pay; the question was whether this list included the distribution of the goods, or only the packing of the goods for distribution. The lack of a comma suggested one meaning, while the omission of the conjunction "or" before "packing" and the fact that the "Maine Legislative Drafting Manual" advised against use of the serial comma suggested another. It said "Although authorities on punctuation may differ, when drafting Maine law or rules, don’t use a comma between the penultimate
Thai and Lao Braille different print diacritic in short ເ◌ຶອ "eua" and ເ◌ັຍ "ia". The short sign ( ็) is also used for the rarer virama ( ฺ). Numbers are the same as in other braille alphabets, though dot six is prefixed to the to specify that they're Thai or Lao digits. Thus, a sequence of numbers begins with . Single (though not paired) clause-final punctuation may introduced with , but is otherwise as in English Braille. There is some variability in the use of the to mark stop/period, comma, and the exclamation point. Thai Braille seems to use for the comma, while Lao