Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
U.S. Hardcover Large Print Edition
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Word Count
57,750 words, Guess
Page Count
231 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveeatsshootsleaves00trus_1
- ISBN-100786268379
- ISBN-139780786268375
- GoogleDnQ5PwAACAAJ
- Goodreads1012889
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- Library of Congress Control Number2004051707
- OCLC Control Number55682381
- OCLC Control Number809726906
- Open LibraryOL3306794M
Classifications
- DDC428.2
- LCCPE1450 .T75 2004b
Alternate Titles
- Eats, shoots, and leaves
Description
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!’ ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.lynnetruss.com/books/eats-shoots-leaves/
First Sentence
Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't.
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. --back cover
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