Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss.
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 Ly...
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New York :
Gotham Books,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Frank McCourt
- Publisher's note
- Preface
- Introduction: Seventh sense
- Tractable apostrophe
- That'll do, comma
- Airs and graces
- Cutting a dash
- Little used punctuation mark
- Merely conventional signs
- Bibliography.