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The Accidental Apostrophe

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

The Accidental Apostrophe

By Caroline Taggart

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About the book

Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn't.In Roman times, blocks of text were commonly written just as blocks without even wordspacingnevermindpunctuation to help the reader to interpret them. Orators using such texts as notes for a speech would prepare carefully so that they were familiar with the content and didn't come a cropper over a confusion between, say, therapists and the r...Show more

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ISBN

9781782438205

Publisher

Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Accidental Apostrophe

Format

Hardcover

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