TY  - BOOK
AU  - Truss, Lynne ;
TI  - Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
SN  - 1861976771
U1  - 428.2 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Profile Books, 
KW  - English language -- Punctuation
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation
N1  - Included Bibliography; Introduction --
the seventh sense --
The tractable apostrophe --
That'll do, comma --
Airs and graces --
Cutting a dash --
A little used punctuation mark --
Merely conventional signs
N2  - The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-tos to show how important punctuation is in our worldperiod.
In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, 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. Using examples from literature, history, neighborhood signage, and her own imagination, Truss shows how meaning is shaped by commas and apostrophes, and the hilarious consequences of punctuation gone awry.

Featuring a foreword by Frank McCourt, and interspersed with a lively history of punctuation from the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes a powerful case for the preservation of proper punctuation
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