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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Hardcover • 2004 • English • 1. edition

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

By Lynne Truss

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About the book

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 email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, 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. This is a...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9781592400874

Publisher

Avery

Published year

2004

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Format

Hardcover

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