Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2006Copyright date: ©2003Edition: First trade paperback editionDescription: xxvii, 209 pages ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781592402038
- 1592402038
- Eats, shoots and leaves
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books, Ltd.
Previously published in hardcover by Gotham Books.
"With a Foreword by Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Lynne Truss, a self-proclaimed stickler, presents a humorous look at the history of punctuation, discussing the use and misuse of commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, and other punctuation marks.