Category: Language Arts: Grammar

Copyright/published Year: 2004 by Gotham Books

ISBN: 1-592-40087-6

Binding: Cloth

Description: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a ì well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation ("A sparkling ì series of essays"- Daily Telegraph), which led to the ì writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a ì runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller ì lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as "Grammar Book ì Tops Bestseller List" -BBC News. With more than 500,000 copies in ì print in her native England, Lynne Truss is ready to rally the ì troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, "Sticklers ì unite!"

Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in ì e-mail, and now txt msgs, we have made proper punctuation an ì endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former ì editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, ì witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our ì commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary ì things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so ì be it. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get ì upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the ì semicolon, to New Yorker editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with ì James Thurber over commas, this lively history makes a powerful ì case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions ì that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

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