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001 2009291769
003 DLC
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008 090701s2008 nyua j 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2009291769
020 $a9781592403912
020 $a1592403913
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn191929236
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050 00 $aPE1450$b.T753 2008
082 04 $a428.2$222
100 1 $aTruss, Lynne.
245 10 $aEats, shoots & leaves :$bthe zero toleration approach to punctuation /$cby Lynne Truss ; illustrated by Pat Byrnes.
246 3 $aEats, shoots and leaves
250 $aIllustrated ed.
260 $aNew York :$bGotham Books$cc2008.
300 $a176 p. :$bcol. ill. ;$c25 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books, Ltd."--T.p. verso.
500 $aWith a foreword by Frank McCourt (2004).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 172-173).
505 0 $aIntroduction: The seventh sense -- The tractable apostrophe -- That'll do, comma -- Airs and graces -- Cutting a dash -- A little used punctuation mark -- Merely conventional signs.
520 $aWe 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.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xPunctuation$vJuvenile literature.
650 0 $aComma$vJuvenile literature.
700 1 $aByrnes, Pat,$eill.