Truss, Lynne,

Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss. - Fourth Estate paperback edition. - xiv, 209 pages ; 20 cm.

Originally published: London: Profile, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction - the seventh sense -- the tractable apostrophe -- that's all do, comma -- airs and graces -- cutting a dash -- a little used punctuation mark -- merely conventional sign.

'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' adopts a militant approach to punctuation and attempts to recruit an army of vigilantes who will send letters back with the punctuation corrected, not accept sloppy emails, and climb ladders with pots of paint to remove redundant apostrophes from signs.

9780007329069


English language--Punctuation.

PE1450 / .T78 2009

421.1 TR.E 2009