Only morons use spellcheckers.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
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*So, to summarise: this is a coded BBC message about banging an intern's colon.
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I scored 5/7, which is very good considering I only scored 2 out of 7 when I done it yesterday.
Home schooling otherwise known as "go to your room and play with your X-Box/PS5"
You must be the only person that can't see I was taking the piss.Then you get upset when you're called low-IQ
Now that is the sign of a low-IQ mongrel.
