Serial comma The judge in the case said that 43 of the 50 U.S. states had mandated the use of a serial comma and that both chambers of the federal congress had warned against omitting it, in the words of the U.S. House Legislative Counsel's Manual on Drafting Style, "to prevent[] any misreading that the last item is part of the preceding one"; only 7 states "either do not require or expressly prohibited the use of the serial comma". In the following languages, the serial comma is not the norm and may go against punctuation rules: Serial comma In English language punctuation,
Comma the comma is used to denote Logical Conjunction ("and"). The comma-separated values (CSV) format is very commonly used in exchanging text data between database and spreadsheet formats. The comma is used as a diacritic mark in Romanian under the "s" ("Ș", "ș"), and under the "t" ("Ț", "ț"). A cedilla is occasionally used instead of it, but this is technically incorrect. The symbol "d̦" ("d" with comma below) was used as part of the Romanian transitional alphabet (19th century) to indicate the sounds denoted by the Latin letter "z" or letters "dz", where derived from a Cyrillic "ѕ" (). The