Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Subtitle: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
By: Lynne Truss
Edition: 1st printing
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781861976772
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Zeichensetzung; Punctuation; English language
Description: A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds and explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.
--back cover
Notes: Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.