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===British 50p Brexit coin=== In 2020, a [[Brexit 50p coin|commemorative 50p coin]] was brought into circulation in the United Kingdom to mark "[[Brexit]] day", January 31, 2020, minted with the phrase "Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations". English novelist [[Philip Pullman]] and others criticized the omission of the serial comma, while others said it was an [[American English|Americanism]] and not required in this instance.<ref name="Brexit50p">{{cite news|last=Furness|first=Hannah|date=January 27, 2020|title=Author calls for Brexit coin 'boycott' over lack of Oxford comma|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/27/author-calls-brexit-coin-boycott-lack-oxford-comma/|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127194852/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/27/author-calls-brexit-coin-boycott-lack-oxford-comma/|archive-date=January 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/27/brexit-50p-coin-boycott-philip-pullman-oxford-comma|title=Philip Pullman calls for boycott of Brexit 50p coin over 'missing' Oxford comma|date=January 27, 2020|website=The Guardian|access-date=November 12, 2021|archive-date=August 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831010250/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/27/brexit-50p-coin-boycott-philip-pullman-oxford-comma|url-status=live}}</ref>
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