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In college I worked for the California air resources board. (Ironically, I had a modified car). We wrote all our reports per California legalese punctuation. That rule was to never use a comma before “and” at the end of a written series. I think this was how I was taught in engineering school as well.
When I worked in engineering (Lockheed and Boeing) I often got push-back on this. But generally, I didn’t see consistency in this rule with documents we put out. Including to the FAA.
So, for argument, I just checked another government agency, the FAA. Looking at their documents it appears they do follow the comma before “and” in a written series rule.
It’s incredible how law found another way to be consistently inconsistent. I’m glad I retired last year.
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Gary
'85 Targa (fastest), '74 914 2.0 (funest), '71 VW Westfalia (slowest), '16 Q70L (wife's), '17 Armada (daily driver)
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