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100 1 _aTruss, Lynne,
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245 1 0 _aEats, shoots & leaves :
_bthe zero tolerance approach to punctuation /
_cLynne Truss.
246 3 _aEats, shoots and leaves
264 1 _aNew York :
_bGotham Books,
_c2004.
300 _axxvii, 209 pages ;
_c20 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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500 _aOriginally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 0 _tForeword /
_rFrank McCourt --
_tIntroduction - the seventh sense --
_tThe tractable apostrophe --
_tThat'll do, comma --
_tAirs and graces --
_tCutting a dash --
_tA little used punctuation mark --
_tMerely conventional signs.
520 1 _a"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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