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Thank you very much MrP.

I live in the US of A (a long lost term) and as I have mentioned earlier, the extra comma is indeed used quite often.

I will search on "serial comma" just to satisfy my own curiosity. I will also, continue to structure my sentences without the extra comma since you have given me the choice .

Quite frankly, it appears to me that the extra comma would make the sentence ambiguous and rather redundant since its purpose here is to convey more to come in a series.

Now, I understand why there is such a debate over this small issue. It is easy to get absorbed into it. I thought it was just me.

Again, I thank you for enlightening me and most certainly for your time.

Word

P.S. I was pleasantly surprised to get the screen name of "Word" myself and it was on my first attempt.