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An edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003)

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The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

U.S. Hardcover Large Print Edition

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Through sloppy usage, low standards, and now e-mail, 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. If there are only pedants left who care, so be it. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to New Yorker editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with James Thurbur over commas, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions.
--back cover

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Thorndike Press
Language
English
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231

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Non-Fiction, reference, English language, punctuation, syntactic ambiguities, Humor, hyphens, apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation marks, question marks, quotation marks, italic type, brackets, ellipses, emoticons, email, grammar, Engels, Interpunctie, Zeichensetzung, Anglais (Langue), Ponctuation, Large type books, rammar, Langues, Grammaire, Manuels de stylistique, Englisch, English language--punctuation, Pe1450 .t75 2004, 428.2, English language, punctuation
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Lynn Truss, George Orwell (1903-1950), Harold Ross

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Waterville, ME, USA

Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-227).

Other Titles
Eats, shoots, and leaves
Copyright Date
2003

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
428.2
Library of Congress
PE1450 .T75 2004b

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
231 p.
Number of pages
231

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3306794M
Internet Archive
eatsshootsleaves00trus_1
ISBN 10
0786268379
ISBN 13
9780786268375
LCCN
2004051707
OCLC/WorldCat
55682381, 809726906
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0786268379
Google
DnQ5PwAACAAJ
Library Thing
4230
Goodreads
1012889

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Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.

We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. ‘Its Summer!’ screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. ‘Pansy’s ready’, we learn to our considerable interest (‘Is she?’) as we browse among the bedding plants.

It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers’ apostrophes with a war cry of ‘Sticklers unite!’
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