The Imperial Comma

The Imperial Comma, unlike the Oxford Comma, is not widely debated and remains happily uncontroversial. While its origins are unclear, it has been suggested that the name owes its existence to writing at the predominantly STEM institution, the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, formally Imperial College of Science and Technology. Its engineers and scientists (whose writing has a Stella reputation) often inadvertently, add commas in places in which they are, unnecessary or simply, incorrect giving rise, to the term the "Imperial Comma".