Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Subtitle: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
By: Lynne Truss.
Edition: U.S. Hardcover Large Print Edition
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Waterville, ME, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780786268375
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: English language -- Punctuation.; Large type books.
Other titles: Eats, shoots, and leaves
Description: 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.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-227).
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: the seventh sense --; title: The tractable apostrophe --; title: That'll do, comma --; title: Airs and graces --; title: Cutting a dash --; title: A little used punctuation mark --; title: Merely conventional signs.