Omitting the serial comma may create ambiguity; writers who normally avoid the comma often use one to avoid this. Consider the apocryphal book dedication below:[34] To my parents, Mother Teresa and the pope. There is ambiguity about the writer's parentage as "Mother Teresa and the pope" can be read as a renaming of[35] my parents, leading the reader to believe that the writer claims that Mother Te
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