Eats, shoots & leaves
Subtitle: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
By: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781846680359
Subjects: English language; Punctuation; 18.04 English language
Description: 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' adopts a militant approach to punctuation and attempts to recruit an army of vigilantes who will send letters back with the punctuation corrected, not accept sloppy emails, and climb ladders with pots of paint to remove redundant apostrophes from signs.
Notes: Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the seventh sense; title: The tractable apostropher; title: That'll do, comma; title: Airs and graces; title: Cutting a dash; title: A little used punctuation mark; title: Merely conventional signs.