>> Notice the curios capitalisation
> 
> It's standard. Everything but conjunctions and articles and prepositions 
> gets capitalized, and those others if they start the sentence of course.

So why are "It" and "Is" capitalised, but not "to" and "and"? That seems 
rather inconsistent to me.

>> and other assorted grammar... 
> 
> ... which needs a comma before the first "and" in American.

Really? In UK English, you never put a comma before an "and". Unless 
it's a new clause in the sentence anyway.

"X, Y and Z" is the correct way here, but they wrote "X, Y, and Z".

I couldn't comment on whether or not it's correct US English.

(Did I tell you about the friendly cashier who told my grandad that "you 
speak our language very well"? Au contrare, *you* speak *our* language 
rather badly! :-P But there we are...)

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