Eats, Shoots & Leaves
2003 non-fiction book on punctuation by Lynne Truss / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society. Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction.
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Author | Lynne Truss |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | English grammar |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Publication date | 6 November 2003 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 228 pp. |
ISBN | 978-1-86197-612-3 |
OCLC | 55019487 |
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LC Class | PE1450 .T75 2003 |
Truss dedicates the book "to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution": she added this dedication as an afterthought after remembering the factoid when reading one of her radio plays.[1]