Amazon.co.uk Book Description:
"Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren't we all taught at school how to use full stops, commas and question marks? And yet we see ignorance and indifference everywhere. "Its Summer!" says a sign that cries out for an apostrophe. "ANTIQUE,S," says another, bizarrely. "Pansy's ready", we learn to our considerable interest ("Is she?"), as we browse among the bedding plants.

"In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss dares to say that, with our system of punctuation patently endangered, it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them for the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. "Sticklers unite" is her rallying cry. "You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion--and arguably you didn't have much of that to begin with."

"This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset about it. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to Sir Roger Casement "hanged on a comma"; from George Orwell shunning the semicolon to Peter Cook saying Nevile Shute's three dots made him feel all funny", this book makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with."

Updated 2 July 2005: Taken to today's BookCrossing UK Unconvention in Birmingham.

She seems like a voice of reason in a slapdash world! With Bryson's 'Troublesome Words' and Fowler's 'English Usage' already on my shelves, there's the distinct possibility I'm turning into a pedant ...

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I liked this so much I went and purchased my own copy!

RELEASE NOTES:

If not picked up at the meet, will be left at the Showroom OBCZ

Cool! I've yet to read this book, so grabbed it at the Sheffield meet :)

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