An Excerpt from Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Lynne Truss's book on punctilious punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, was a surprise success in Britain last year. (Who thought people would want to read about punctuation for stickers?) So the book hit the American book sellers' stalls this Spring. The link in the title will lead you to the book's "Introduction," where you can decide for yourself if the book is a painless introduction to punctuation. Personally, I'm charmed by phrases such as "satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes," but I'm waiting for the paperback release.

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