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Eats, Shoots and Leaves:

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Penguin, 2003 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 209 pages
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
  

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Re-read this after several years. I remember standing in Barnes and Noble reading the first few pages and literally having to stifle out-loud, obnoxious laughter! This time I still thought it was ... Read full review

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For a technical book, it is really quite clever. It definitely has some attitude and sass, but I found this to be what gave the book its charm. Read full review

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Contents

Introduction The Seventh Sense
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The Tractable Apostrophe
35
Thatll Do Comma
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Airs and Graces
103
Cutting a Dash
132
A Little Used Punctuation Mark
168
Bibliography
205
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About the author (2003)

Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women’s Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton, England.

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