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Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

ISBN: 9781592402038 | 1592402038

Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Gotham
Pub. Date: 4/11/2006

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A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Trusss now classic #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover. We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witt... MOREy, 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. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. BACKCOVER: Praise for Lynne Truss and "Eats, Shoots & Leaves": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" makes correct usage so cool that you have to admire Ms. Truss. Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" Witty, smart, passionate. "Los Angeles Times Book Review," Best Books Of 2004: Nonfiction Who knew grammar could be so much fun? "Newsweek" Witty and instructive. . . . Truss is an entertaining, well-read scold in a culture that could use more scolding. "USA Today" Truss is William Safire crossed with John Cleeses Basil Fawlty. "Entertainment Weekly" Lynne Truss has done the English-speaking world a huge service. "The Christian ScienceMonitor" This book changed my life in small, perfect ways like learning how to make better coffee or fold an omelet. Its the perfect gift for anyone who cares about grammar and a gentle introduction for those who dont care enough. "The Boston Sunday Globe" Lynne Truss makes [punctuation] a joy to contemplate. "Elle" If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic Id nominate her for sainthood. Frank McCourt, author of "Angelas Ashes" Trusss scholarship is impressive and never dry. Edmund Morris, "The New York Times Book Review"

The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to�s to show how important punctuation is in our world�period. �In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation.�She proclaims, 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. Using examples from literature, history, neighborhood signage, and her own imagination, Truss shows how meaning is shaped by commas and apostrophes, and the hilarious consequences of punctuation gone awry.�Featuring a foreword by Frank McCourt, and interspersed with a lively history of punctuation from the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes a powerful case for the preservation of proper punctuation.

Foreword by Frank McCourt	xi
Publisher's Note	xv
Preface	xvii
Introduction � The Seventh Sense?	1	(34)
The Tractable Apostrophe	35	(33)
That'll Do, C... MOREomma	68	(35)
Airs and Graces	103	(29)
Cutting a Dash	132	(36)
A Little Used Punctuation Mark	168	(9)
Merely Conventional Signs	177	(28)
Bibliography	205

LYNNE TRUSS is the author of the New York Times bestseller Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door, and The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels . Eats, Shoots & Leaves, for which she won Britain-'s Book of the Year Award, has sold over three million copies worldwide. Truss is a regular host on BBC Radio 4, a Times (London) columnist, and the author of numerous radio comedy dramas.

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