Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss.
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TextPublication details: London : Fourth Estate, 2009. Description: xiv, 209 p. ; 20 cmISBN: - 9780007368419 (pbk.)
- Eats, shoots & leaves
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209).
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.
'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.
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