Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss.
2004
PE1450 .T78 2004
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Title
Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss.
Author
ISBN
1592400876
Imprint
New York : Gotham Books, 2004.
Language
English
Description
xxvii, 209 p. ; 19 cm.
Call Number
PE1450 .T78 2004
System Control No.
(OCoLC)54685268
Summary
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.
Note
Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209).
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / Frank McCourt
Publisher's note
Preface
Introduction: Seventh sense
Tractable apostrophe
That'll do, comma
Airs and graces
Cutting a dash
Little used punctuation mark
Merely conventional signs
Bibliography.
Publisher's note
Preface
Introduction: Seventh sense
Tractable apostrophe
That'll do, comma
Airs and graces
Cutting a dash
Little used punctuation mark
Merely conventional signs
Bibliography.
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