I May Faint

Who do you suppose wrote this?

"As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma." 

Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

Is there a style change I missed?

Is there a reason we keep getting redundant references on money, like this? This is the third one I've seen in two days.

It asked for $1 million dollars and said "no cops."

Wrong Is Just Wrong

The thing is, there's no good way to say that the robbery went "right" so saying a holdup that turned fatal had "gone wrong" sets up a problem. It's a construction that needs to be avoided.

 

I can think of two outrageous crimes where one or more people have gotten killed after yelling out that he/she recognized the perp. It would not be surprising if this turned out to be the case here. 

 

But who knows.

From the Associated Press

June 19, 2011, 1:57 p.m.

MEDFORD, New York—

A gunman fatally shot four people inside a pharmacy in a New York suburb Sunday morning, killing everyone inside the store in what police said looked like a robbery gone wrong.

The massacre happened at about 10:20 a.m. inside a family-owned pharmacy in a small cluster of medical offices in Medford, a middle-class town on Long Island about 60 miles east of New York City.

Reaching the 21st Century

In 2011, why is anyone still using "coed" ?

Cops: We Have "Persons Of Interest" In NY Coed's Disappearance In ...‎ - KTLA.

It's probably time to strike that one from the vocabulary list.