TY  - BOOK
AU  - Truss,Lynne
TI  - Eats, shoots & leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation 
SN  - 1592400876
AV  - PE1450 .T75 2004
U1  - 428.2 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Gotham Books
KW  - English language
KW  - Punctuation
N1  - Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books; Includes bibliographical references; Foreword; Frank McCourt --; 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
N2  - "In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation." "Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now "txt msgs," we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say 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, then 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 Thurber over commas, this history makes a case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with."--BOOK JACKET
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